Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

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

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About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

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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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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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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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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

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

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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