Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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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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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

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Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

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Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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