Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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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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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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

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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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