Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL 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 COLERIDGE -
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE