“He was the first poet I ever knew. His genius at that time had angelic wings, and fed on manna. He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever. His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort; but as if borne on the gusts of genius, and as if the wings of his imagination lifted him from off his feet.”
“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