Coleridge Quotes

14 quotes by 11 authors

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than… — Jacob Bronowski
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed… — Loren Eiseley
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief".… — Sharon Salzberg
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. — Billy Collins
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet… — Gerald Brenan
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. — Charles Lamb
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;… — Jorge Luis Borges
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after… — John Ruskin
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For… — Jorge Luis Borges

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