Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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

• [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taken, Science, Space

• 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

• One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sand, Grains Of Sand, Grain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.100

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