Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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 A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge All powerful souls have kindred with each other
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge