“A stately pleasure-dome decree.”
“May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“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.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.”
Source: Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep
“A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.”
“My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.”
Source: The Letters Volume 2
“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.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.”
“That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“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.”
Source: Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge
“Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk
“Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.”
“Within today, tomorrow is already walking.”
“The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.”
Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child.”
“The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.”
“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.”
“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.”
Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.”
“A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!”
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.”
“How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.”
“If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.”
Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections
“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“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.”
“For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.”
Source: The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol
“A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Edition): The Most Famous Poem of the English literary critic, poet and philosopher, author of Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems, Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection
“To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.”
“False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.”
Source: AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
“Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.”
Source: Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge
“I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.”
“Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.”
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
“When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.”
“Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.”
“There is nothing insignificant-nothing.”
Source: The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author
“Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.”
“Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple tree.”
Source: Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge
“The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.”
“And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.”
Source: The Ancient Mariner and Selected Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)
