110+ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes On Poetry, Romantic And Dreamy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher. He was a major figure in the Romantic Movement of the early 19th century, and is best known for his long poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He was also a key figure in the development of the Romantic Movement's philosophical and aesthetic ideas, and was an early proponent of the idea of the imagination as a creative force. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry, romantic, dreamy.

Top 10 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

1. What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
2. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
3. Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
4. There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
5. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
6. A great mind must be androgynous.
7. That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
8. All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
9. People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
10. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Image Quotes

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Short Quotes

• Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.
• Friendship is a sheltering tree.
• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
• And in today already walks tomorrow.
• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
• He prayeth best who loveth best.
• The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
• Her skin was white as leprosy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Poetry

Poetry: the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry . — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Love

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Genius

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Ends

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Summer has set in with its usual severity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Soul

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All powerful souls have kindred with each other — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Language

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Famous Quotes And Sayings

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Gothic church is a petrified religion. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. 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

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of LoveAnd feed His sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life Lessons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge taught us to embrace the power of imagination, to take risks and to be open to new ideas.
2. He also reminded us to strive for excellence and to strive for knowledge, and to never give up on our dreams.
3. Finally, he encouraged us to be kind and compassionate and to appreciate the beauty of life.