Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet and critic

Alive from: 1772-1834

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary)

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  An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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  Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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  No one does anything from a single motive.

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

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  Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

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  Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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  All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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  Alone, alone, all all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea!
  Source: Rhyme of the ancient mariner (1798)

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  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!

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  And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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  Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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  As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.

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  As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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  But what is freedom?