Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

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We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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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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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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All powerful souls have kindred with each other

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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

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