Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes - page 3

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. View quote
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth. View quote
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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. View quote
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Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. View quote
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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. View quote
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And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you. View quote
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Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. View quote
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The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber. View quote
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. View quote
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But metre itself implies a passion, i. e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. View quote
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Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life. View quote
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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind. View quote
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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. View quote
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Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. View quote
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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. View quote
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. View quote
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Never pursue literature as a trade. View quote
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Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. View quote
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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. View quote
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. View quote
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. View quote
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And the spring comes slowly up this way. View quote
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