Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeForth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHappiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge