Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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 bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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Bells, the poor man's only music.

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

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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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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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He prayeth best who loveth best.

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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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