Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge An undevout poet is an impossibility.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He prayeth best who loveth best.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge 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.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge