Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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 ...”

• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Love Is, Tree

• So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Flower, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.144

• Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
  Friendship is a sheltering tree;
  Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
  Of friendship, love, and liberty,
  Ere I was old!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Flower, Love Is

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2012). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.73, Courier Corporation

• The bride hath paced into the hall,
  Red as a rose is she.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Rose, Red

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems”, p.5

• 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)

• 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

• We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Color, Shepherds

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