Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes - page 8

Aloof with hermit-eye I scan The present works of present man - A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,- Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between. View quote
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A charm For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of life. View quote
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Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. View quote
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Her face, oh call it fair, not pale! View quote
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I lay too many Eggs in the hot Sands of this Wilderness, the World! with Ostrich Carelessness & Ostrich Oblivion. The greater part, I trust, are trod underfoot, & smashed; but yet no small number crawl forth into Life, some to furnish Feathers for the Caps of others, & still more to plume the Shafts in the Quivers of my Enemies, of them that lie in wait against my Soul. View quote
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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there. View quote
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Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists. View quote
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So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. View quote
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My next shall be a more sober & chastised Epistle - but you see I was in the humour for metaphors - and to tell thee the Truth, I have so often serious reasons to quarrel with my Inclination, that I do not chuse to contradict it for Trifles. View quote
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With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he - Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S. T. C! That he, who many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death. View quote
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Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines. View quote
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I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all. View quote
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Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. View quote
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Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone. View quote
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. View quote
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It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse, that distinguishes in order to divide. In the former, we may contemplate the source of superstition and idolatry; in the latter of schism, heresy! and a seditious and sectarian spirit. View quote
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Friendship is a sheltering tree. View quote
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. View quote
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. View quote
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. View quote
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. View quote
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. View quote
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