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“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)

“The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion …, loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aids to Reflection, 1839 https://archive.org/stream/aidstoreflection06cole#page/142/mode/2up, p. 142.

“I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29 June 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“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 MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
Letters

“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

" Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Love.html", st. 1 (1799)

“The most general definition of beauty … Multeity in Unity.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)

“The last speech, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity — how awful!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Iago soliloquy in Othello, in "Notes on Shakespeare" (c. 1812)

“Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIV

“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 Christabel

Conclusion to Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

30 August 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“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

Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 1

“Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)

“Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Christmas Carol, viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)

“Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Visit of the Gods, (Imitated from Schiller)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.
Letter to his brother (1791)
Letters

“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

12 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse, that distinguishes in order to divide. In the former, we may contemplate the source of superstition and idolatry; in the latter of schism, heresy! and a seditious and sectarian spirit.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 26