Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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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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I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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

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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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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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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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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

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