40 Quotes by Samuel Coleridge

Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.

The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or two beside.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.

A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!

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