Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

“Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

Ifs Heart Grows Tree Tears Proud Gentle Poison Repentance Remorse Dew Gloomy True Repentance

Book: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

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

“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”

Hands Pieces Four Cutting Rounds Corners Nonsense Passages Sublime Ridicule Fiery

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.”

Whole Form Results Unity Explaining

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.”

Hands Form Given Materials Shapes Impress Mechanic Innate Predetermined

Book:Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

Source: Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

“I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.”

May Form Passion Winning Fountain

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.”

Reason Please Satisfaction Reason Why

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.”

Writing Faults Excellence Excess Great Author

Book: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

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

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.”

Should Happens Pain Focus Our Lives Refuse Deny Valleys

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

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