Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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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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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

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