Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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All nature seems at work.

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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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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

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