Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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Remorse weeps tears of blood.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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