Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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