Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

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We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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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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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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

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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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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

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The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

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All nature seems at work.

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Remorse weeps tears of blood.

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[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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