Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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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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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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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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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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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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

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How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

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Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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