Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

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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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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

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We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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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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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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