Objects Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10 Objects quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge lets ordinary things sing with the rhythm of the Romantic spirit. These ten lines illustrate how he transforms simple objects into conduits of wonder and philosophical reflection.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer…

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,…

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into…

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such…

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the…

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Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper…

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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,…

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The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the…

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,…

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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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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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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