Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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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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It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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

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Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

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In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

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