Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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

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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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

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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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