Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

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And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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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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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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