Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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

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

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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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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

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