Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”

• 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

• All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
  The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
  And Winter slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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

• Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Dark, Reality

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.193

• Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Dream, Autumn

• A sight to dream of, not to tell!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Sight

  'Christabel' pt. 1 (1797) (l. 252)

• If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Flower, Men

  Anima Poetae, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1895)

• As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Men, Substance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1933). “Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources”

• The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Night, Waking

• Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, School, Blessing

• Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Fiction, Fairy Tale

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.269

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