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Love Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

56 Love quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A sword that cuts its sheath appears in Coleridge’s words, showing love as both sharp and protective. He writes that love can be a powerful four‑letter word and that ideas need symbols to be understood. He also notes that love can arise from quiet moments, like eyes painting pictures when shut.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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All nature seems at work.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and…

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they…

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from…

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“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,…

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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and…

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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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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the…

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“Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath, Love is a sword that cuts its sheath, And thro' the clefts, itself has made,…

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A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;…

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love…

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think…

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“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,…

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

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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

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“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.”

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

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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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“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a…

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