Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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

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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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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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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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Bells, the poor man's only music.

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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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