Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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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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For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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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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And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

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