Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge What comes from the heart goes to the heart
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge