Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

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[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

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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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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. 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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