Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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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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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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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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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

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

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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

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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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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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