Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

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The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

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Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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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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