Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes - page 2

That saints will aid if men will call For the blue sky bends over all. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sight to dream of, not to tell.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire - which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work - may be stated in two words: - the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge