Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes - Page 19

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• Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophy, Taken, Atheism

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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 “Unpublished Letters”

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• Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Funeral, Heaven

  'Epitaph on an Infant' (1794)

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• When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Mistress, Thieves

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.170, Princeton University Press

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• [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

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• Come, come thou bleak December wind,
  And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
  Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
  And take a Life that wearies me.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blow, Wind, Tree

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2011). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Excess, Exciting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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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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• A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Heart, My Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.63

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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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• 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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• But oh! each visitation
  Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
  My shaping spirit of Imagination.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Spirit, Birth

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 6.

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• A stately pleasure-dome decree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Domes, Classic, Pleasure

  "Kubla Khan" l. 1 (1816)

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• I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  May, Kind, Electricity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382

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• 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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• 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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• I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Years, Two

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• 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

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• Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hebrew, Birth, Sublimity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1871). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.406

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• Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Rhythm, Melody

  "Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

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• I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Agony, Trance, Remembered

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.4

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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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