Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes - Page 16

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• Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
  And the church of St. Geryon
  Are the two things alone
  That deserve to be known
  In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, Soul, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.306, Classic Books Company

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• A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wife, May, Miserable

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].”, p.172

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• O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Strong, Heart, Soul

  1802 'Dejection: An Ode', stanza 5.

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• 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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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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• The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Self, Order

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• Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
  The glorious Sun uprist

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dawn, Red, Sun

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 2

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• I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Heart, Dust

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1246, Delphi Classics

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• The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beauty, Bears, Form

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Tongue, Pathos, Wit

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

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• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Queens, Sleep, Insomnia

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Night, June

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
  It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
  That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
  And but translates the language of the heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Famous Love, Heart, Flames

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.284

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• Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Dark, Sight

  'Fears in Solitude' (1798)

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• Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Essence, Tragedy, Farce

  1833 Table Talk (published 1835), entry for 25 Aug.

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• An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Symbols, Highest

  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

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• I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sharks, Chemistry

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1933). “Unpublished Letters”

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• General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Roots, Tree, Principles

  "Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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• Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Lonesome, Trekking

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

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• The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Notion, Primaries

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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• The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Government, Two, Three

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions".

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• To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Light, Track

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• The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Attention, Faults

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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