Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain,
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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. 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.
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.
Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did:...
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
