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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dawn, Red, Sun
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 2

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination, Notion, Primaries

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Teacher, Stars
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost At Midnight”

Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Two, Soul, Church
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.306, Classic Books Company

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Moon, Age
"Kubla Khan" l. 12 (1816)

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Spring, Heart, My Heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.63

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Domes, Classic, Pleasure
"Kubla Khan" l. 1 (1816)

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Kindness, Absent

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart, Angel, Compassion
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.288

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Style, Rhythm, Melody
"Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Clouds, Light, Issues
'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strong, Women, Heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ideas, Symbols, Highest
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.156, Princeton University Press

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mind, Excess, Exciting
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Honey, Pairs, Sole
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1033, Princeton University Press

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beauty, Bears, Form

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May, Kind, Electricity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination, Spirit, Birth
'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 6.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sand, Grains Of Sand, Grain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.100

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream, Stars, Pain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brother, Mind, Devil
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hebrew, Birth, Sublimity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1871). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.406

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Self, Order

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