Samuel Taylor Quotes
Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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 their best order.
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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.