Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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

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

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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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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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A great mind must be androgynous.

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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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

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