Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes - page 10

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
If you would be well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of you if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself. View quote
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Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess - They contemplate nothing but parts - and are parts are necessarily little - and the Universe to them is but a mass of little things. View quote
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While clombe above the Eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright Star Almost atween the tips. View quote
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. View quote
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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. View quote
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Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. View quote
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His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, though sometimes productive of great effect, are often unreasonable. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. View quote
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Awake, my soul! not only passive praise Thou owest! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. View quote
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The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure. View quote
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Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not! View quote
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Awake, Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn. View quote
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Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air, Love them for what they are; nor love them less, Because to thee they are not what they were. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? View quote
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In nature there is nothing melancholy. View quote
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Metaphisics is a word that you, my dear Sir! are no great friend to / but yet you will agree, that a great Poet must be, implicitè if not explicitè, a profound Metaphysician. View quote
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Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw. View quote
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. View quote
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From my early reading of Faery Tales, & Genii &c &c - my mind had been habituated to the Vast - & I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief. View quote
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Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. View quote
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