Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

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Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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

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God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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