Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

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

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

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

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

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

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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And in today already walks tomorrow.

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree.

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

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