Flower Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

14 Flower quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s Romantic sensibility finds a quiet echo in these fourteen verses, where blossoms serve as portals to imagination and introspection.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was…

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

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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in…

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“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his…

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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them…

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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance…

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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?…

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep,…

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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