Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge 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.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge