Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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

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The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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

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God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

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It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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