Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Trending quotes (page 7)

“What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Heart , Parting

“Manly energy … is the proper rendering [for αρετην], and not virtue, at least in the present and ordinary acceptation of the word.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aids to Reflection (1829), comment to Aphorism 7

“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)

Idea , Nature , Sense

“Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The Homeric Hexameter" (translated from Schiller) (1799)

“Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. II

Men , Star

“The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIII

Imagination

“Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place
(Portentous-sight!) the owlet Atheism,
Sailing an obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringèd lids, and holds them close,
And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven,
Cries out, "Where is it?"”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Fears in Solitude http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Fears_in_Solitude.html", l. 81 (1798)

Sun

“I have known books written on Tolerance, the proper title of which would be — intolerant or intolerable books on tolerance. Should not a man who writes a book expressly to inculcate tolerance learn to treat with respect, or at least with indulgence, articles of faith which tens of thousands ten times told of his fellow-subjects or his fellow-creatures believe with all their souls, and upon the truth of which they rest their tranquillity in this world, and their hopes of salvation in the next, — those articles being at least maintainable against his arguments, and most certainly innocent in themselves?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3 January 1834
Table Talk (1821–1834)

Truth , Books , World , Faith

“Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. IV

Imagination

“I've lived and loved.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wallenstein, part i, Act ii, scene 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love

“In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poems Written in Later Life, motto (1826)

Love , Way , Heart

“Shakespeare, no mere child of nature; no automaton of genius; no passive vehicle of inspiration possessed by the spirit, not possessing it; first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge became habitual and intuitive, wedded itself to his habitual feelings, and at length gave birth to that stupendous power by which he stands alone, with no equal or second in his own class; to that power which seated him on one of the two glorysmitten summits of the poetic mountain, with Milton аs his compeer, not rival. While the former darts himself forth, and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood; the other attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakspeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XV

Feeling , Mountain , Birth , Nature

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The power, the beauty, and the majesty
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,
Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,
Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished;
They live no longer in the faith of reason.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wallenstein, part i. Act ii, scene 4 (translated from Schiller)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Faith , Religion , Beauty , Mountain

“Schiller has the material sublime.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29 December 1822
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The Presence of Love" (1807), lines 10-11

Love

“Carv'd with figures strange and sweet,
All made out of the carver's brain.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“Saints will aid if men will call:
For the blue sky bends over all!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part I, l. 330
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)

Men

“Summer has set in with his usual severity.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to Charles Lamb (1826)
Letters

Summer

“Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)

Sense , Housing

“In the treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2 January 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)

Hope