Samuel Taylor Coleridge famous quotes

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Life #Wisdom

And in today already walks tomorrow.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Appreciation #Teacher #Today

Silence does not always mark wisdom.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Silence

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Wise #Ideas #History

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Life #Friendship

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Fear #Politics #Ends

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Spring #Way #Months

What comes from the heart goes to the heart
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Attitude #Angel #Heart

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Lovely #Christ #Holy

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Horny #Devil #Horns

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Life #Believe

Summer has set in with its usual severity.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Summer #Usual

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Children #Would Be #World

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 Coleridge

#Business #Communication #Past

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Hope #Medicine #Physicians

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#People #Genius #Degrees

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Men #Sea #Rivers

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Believe #Growth #Different

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Sleep #Beloved #Gentle

A great mind must be androgynous.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Mind #Great Minds #Androgynous

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational Life #Preparation #Moments

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 Coleridge

#Love #Beautiful #Dream

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Women #Men #Desire

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life #Love You #Passion

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Love #Life #Prayer

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Ignorance #Understanding #Ignorant

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Writing #Order #Poetry

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Atheist #Heart #Men

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Faith #Philosophy #Good Christian

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Mother #Father #Heart

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Marriage #Men

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Mothers Day #Mom #Alive

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Support #Tolerance #Intolerance

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Retirement #Humor #Mind

No one does anything from a single motive.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Motivation #Doe

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Friendship #Real Friends #Tree

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Statistics #Poetic #Moments

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Imagination #Perception #Agents

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life #Happiness #Smile

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 Coleridge

#Imagination #Mind #Perception

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Flower #Love Is #Tree

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Book #Reading #Glasses

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Voice #Earth #Praise God

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Communication #Imagination #Language

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational #Heart #Men

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Famous Love #Men #Affection

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#People #Criticism #Talent

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Men #Glasses #Alcohol

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 Coleridge

#Humility #Church #Good Christian

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Writing #Plagiarism #Stolen

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Sleep #Night #June

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 Coleridge

#Wise #Feelings #Opponents

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Poetry #Odes #Causes

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Sleep #Blessedness

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Fall #Wind #Life And Death

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#May #Kind #Electricity

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Stars #Sleep #Dwelling

A stately pleasure-dome decree.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Domes #Classic #Pleasure

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Angel #Heart #Dark

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Addiction #Intellectual #Madness

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Imagination #Notion

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Thinking #Facts #Conclusion

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Dream #Stars #Pain

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Brother #Mind #Devil

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Evil #Be Good

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Doe #Intention #Communicate

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Today #Tomorrow #Walking

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Mother #Children #Sake

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Men #Blue #Sky

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Pseudonyms #Doe #Chance

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Blow #Wind #Tree

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life Is #Life Happiness #Minutes

A sight to dream of, not to tell!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Dream #Sight

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life #Circles #Organization

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life #Nightmare

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Children #Eye #Years

I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Bible #Christian #Song

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Believe #Belief

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Sweet #Flower #Blue

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Next #Laziness #Indolence

Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Thinking #Men #Statistics

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Army #Essence #Gentleman

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Night #Fire #Ballet

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Men #Blood #Names

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Mean #Angel #Night

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Spring #Heart #My Heart

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Gratitude #Emotional #Imagination

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Marriage #Couple #Unhappy

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Hard Work #Men #Light

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Stars #Men #Sky

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#House #Palaces #Events

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Truth #Ravens #Wreaths

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Life #Success #Country

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Roots #Tree #Facts

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Sweet #Loss #Echoes

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Faults #Attention #Prose

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Ballet #Red #Lasts

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Thinking #Guilty

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Men #Opposites #Class

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Issues #Clouds #Light