Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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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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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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

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Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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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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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

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Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

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

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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

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