Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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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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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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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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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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