Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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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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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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

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

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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

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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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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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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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