Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I shot the ALBATROSS.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Willing Suspension of Disbelief”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bells, the poor man's only music.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A new Earth and new Heaven.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge