Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Heart

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Attitude, Heart, Angel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Inspirational, Heart

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse”, p.200

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Atheist, Heart, Men

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.236, Princeton University Press

In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Heart, Full Hearts

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.269

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

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

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book, Heart, Illustration

Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852). “Lives of northern worthies”, p.133

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Voice, Silence

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Selfish, Heart, Eye

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.367, Pearson Education

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Sunset, Clouds

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Doctors, Religion

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.181

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Eye, Tears

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.89

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Heart, Mind

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.222

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Color, Should Have

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1950). “Letters: selected & with an introd”

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Agony, Return

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.203, Pearson Education

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strength, Atheist, Heart

"Opus Maximum".

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith, Passion, Heart

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.2036, e-artnow

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Fashion, Heart

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3589, Delphi Classics

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith, Christian, Heart

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Heart, Feelings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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