Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

• My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Vision, Seeing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.134

• 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

• I have heard of reasons manifold
  Why Love must needs be blind,
  But this the best of all I hold,-
  His eyes are in his mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Eye, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.37, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Eye, Years

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 1

• If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Party, Passion, Learning

  In Thomas Allsop 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge' (18 December 1831)

• And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Hair, Circles

  "Kubla Khan" l. 51 (1816)

• A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Men, Cyclops

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.286

• ...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

• 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

• Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Sun, Cameras

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