Coleridge's Quotes

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

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor 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

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

I ago's soliloquy
the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity
how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child. — 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

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

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bells, the poor man's only music. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Coleridge saw the active mind as one way in which human beings were made in God's image: — Mark J.P. Wolf

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — 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

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

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision. — Hartley Coleridge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. — Hartley Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — 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 devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies. — Sara Coleridge

Man is more than half of nature's treasure. — Hartley 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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

In nature there is nothing melancholy — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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