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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book, Beer, Soul
'Epigram' (1802)

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 is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Soul, Poet

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lying, Errors, Soul
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.1

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

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Soul, Intellectual, What If
'The Eolian Harp' (1796) l. 44

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strong, Heart, Soul
1802 'Dejection: An Ode', stanza 5.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sea, Agony, Soul
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 4

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intelligent, Imagination, Soul
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.1465, e-artnow

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rocks, Evil, Soul
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1843). “Aids to Reflection”, p.436

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