Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation”

“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”

“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

“The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the forrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”

“Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”

“The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.”

“He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

“The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.”

“Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!”

“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”

“Clothing the palpable and familiar
With golden exhalations of the dawn.”

“During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.”

“Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.”

“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”

“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”