Coleridge Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Coleridge

Coleridge Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Coleridge quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles. — Hartley Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall — Sara Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Her skin was white as leprosy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb

I shot the ALBATROSS. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it. — Sara Coleridge

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. — Sara Coleridge

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. — Sara Coleridge

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

And in today already walks tomorrow. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. — Hartley Coleridge

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ... — Sara Coleridge

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder. — Hartley Coleridge

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To be loved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In nature there is nothing melancholy — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat. — Sara Coleridge

What is one man's gain is another's loss. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. — Sara Coleridge

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ... — Eliot Paulina Sumner

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Metaphysics,
the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All powerful souls have kindred with each other — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge