Top 492 Quotes & Sayings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess 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.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
No one does anything from a single motive.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
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