Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Quotes about love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was English poet, literary critic and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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

" The Presence of Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Presence_Love.html" (1807), lines 1-4.

“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

“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

Duty Surviving Self-Love (1826)
Context: O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,
While, and on whom, thou may'st — shine on! nor heed
Whether the object by reflected light
Return thy radiance or absorb it quite:
And tho' 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.

“And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

&quot; The Presence of Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Presence_Love.html&quot; (1807), lines 1-4. <br class="br">Context: p&gt;And in Life&#x27;s noisiest hour,<br>There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,<br>The heart&#x27;s Self-solace and soliloquy.You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.&lt;/p

“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.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aids to Reflection, &quot;Moral and Religious Aphorisms,&quot; Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&amp;q=%22He+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%22&amp;pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)

“I am dying, but without expectation of a speedy release. Is it not strange that very recently by-gone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope — those twin realities of this phantom world! I do not add Love, — for what is Love but Youth and Hope embracing, and so seen as one? I say realities; for reality is a thing of degrees, from the Iliad to a dream.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10 July 1834
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On taking Leave of ———— (1817)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I've lived and loved.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

“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)

“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

“Poor little foal of an oppressèd race!
I love the languid patience of thy face.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"To a Young Ass", li. 1 (1794)

“Your Sensibilities are tempestuous — you feel Indignation at Weakness — Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred — His looks are "lovely in terror" — yet still remember, who are his Relations.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to Robert Southey (29 December 1794).
Letters

“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part II, l. 408
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)

“Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

France, An Ode. v
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,—
His eyes are in his mind.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

“With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots,
Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue,
Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"On Donne's Poetry" (c. 1818)

“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

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