Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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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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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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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 principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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

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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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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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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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