Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
