Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

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And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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