Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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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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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

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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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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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

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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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