Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge 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.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge