Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. 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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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

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

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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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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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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