Top 25 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of 480 - Page 5

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alcohol, Heaven, Selfishness

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.303

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Funny, Humor, Men

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.502, Classic Books Company

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship, Men, Reflection

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.50

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Names, Tranquility, Fame

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1857). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.280

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law, Tables, Stones

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831). “Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton”, p.16

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unity, Form, Results

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters”, p.197

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy, Powerful, Soul

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.544

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Names, Imagination

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.125, e-artnow

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Philosophy, Ignorance, Parent

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.177

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

School, Elephants, Differences

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3103, Delphi Classics

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Philanthropy, Traders

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Names, Essentials, Return

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.1353, e-artnow

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Character, Two, Keys

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Made, Bards, Commandments

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.329

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Years, Interesting

Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting

"On the Constitution of the Church and State".

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Animal, Men, Sound

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hard Work, Men, Light

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Satisfaction, Reason Why, Reason

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mean, World, Ends

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.68

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Tree, Tears

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4071, e-artnow

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing, Excellence, Excess

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2584, e-artnow

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ocean, Ships, Stuck

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.699, Delphi Classics

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

School, Men, Genius

"Keeping Pace" by Keeping Pace, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2014.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry, Attention, Definitions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214