Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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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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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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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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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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

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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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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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