Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,-
His eyes are in his mind.
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,-
His eyes are in his mind.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
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.
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
The selfmoment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.
Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.