Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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All nature seems at work.

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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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

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Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?

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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.

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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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