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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1821 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a friend (c. 1821); ed. Allsop (1836), vol. 1, p. 137
“It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portrait of Yesterday.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death — & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End — for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
“On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From my early reading of Faery Tales, & Genii &c &c — my mind had been habituated to the Vast — & I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief. I regulated all my creeds by my conceptions not by my sight — even at that age. Should children be permitted to read Romances, & Relations of Giants & Magicians, & Genii? — I know all that has been said against it; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. — I know no other way of giving the mind a love of "the Great," & "the Whole." — Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They contemplate nothing but parts — and all parts are necessarily little — and the Universe to them is but a mass of little things. It is true, the mind may become credulous and prone to superstition by the former method; — but are not the experimentalists credulous even to madness in believing any absurdity, rather than believe the grandest truths, if they have not the testimony of their own senses in their favor? I have known some who have been rationally educated, as it is styled. They were marked by a microscopic acuteness; but when they looked at great things, all became a blank, and they saw nothing, and denied that any thing could be seen, and uniformly put the negative of a power for the possession of a power, and called the want of imagination judgment, and the never being moved to rapture philosophy.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Poole (16 October 1797); ed. Griggs (1956), vol. 1, p. 354
“He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Red as a rose is she.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And thou art long and lank and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Alone, alone,--all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A lady richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A sight to dream of, not to tell!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ancestral voices prophesying war.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven Cries out, "Where is it?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Earth with her thousand voices praises God.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. . . . . . . . . . Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures,--love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,-- Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in 't together.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Clothing the palpable and familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Schiller has the material sublime.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,--words in their best order; poetry,--the best words in their best order.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source