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“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Truth

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Poetry

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.

Death

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Faith

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Humor