Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Imagination, Giving

  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

• It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Flower, Woven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.531

• 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

• 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.

• A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Ideas, Opposites

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1913*). “Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

• 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

• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Voice, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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