Quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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

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.

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

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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.

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.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.