Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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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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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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

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

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

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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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Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

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