Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

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But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

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

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When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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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 first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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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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Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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