Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

What has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain, changing compounds, yielding a constant flow of new, strange products.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.