Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

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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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