“Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge