Coleridge Quotes
14 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
— Charles Lamb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
— Sidney Sheldon
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Coleridge Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 14 Coleridge Quotes as follows: