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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sweet, Loss, Clouds
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science, Kepler, Tests
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science, Thinking, Illustration
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.23

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Thinking, Statistics
"On the Constitution of the Church and State".

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Army, Essence, Gentleman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.91

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sports, Toys, Talent

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Thinking, Feelings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.169

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bible, Christian, Song
"The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life, Leprosy, Nightmare
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Roots, Tree, Principles
"Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stars, Men, Sky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Girl, Morning, Children
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sleep, Night, June
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wise, Nature, Heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Famous Love, Heart, Flames
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.284

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stars, Dark, Sea
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 3

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tongue, Pathos, Wit
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lonely, Dark, Sight
'Fears in Solitude' (1798)

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blow, Wind, Tree
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2011). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.5, Faber & Faber

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, People, Annoyed
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.481, Classic Books Company

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Believe, Belief

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer, Heart, Dust
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1246, Delphi Classics

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
House, Palaces, Events
'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream, Spring, Winter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Necks, Albatross
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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