Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
4010Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
1992 No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
4378 Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
1650 Silence does not always mark wisdom.
3751 If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
1453 The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
4646 What if you slept?
What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
2952 Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
4875 Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
4648 Poetry: the best words in the best order.
4329 Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
1138 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.
2582 Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
3838 Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
2350 Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
1602 Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.
1622 To be loved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.
1877 A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
1234 An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.
1610 Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
2202 He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
1380 Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
1249 A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
2529 In nature there is nothing melancholy
3708 What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
2268 Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread.
For he on honey-dew hath fed.
And drunk the milk of paradise.
2133 The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.
2397 On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.
3573 A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.
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