Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A new Earth and new Heaven.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Hope grew round me.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way, And wiser men than I went worse astray.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For lo! the New-moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light, (With swimming phantom light o'erspread But rimmed and circled by a silver…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge