Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

"As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."

"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."

"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."