Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Rage is essentially vulgar.

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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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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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All nature seems at work.

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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