Quotes from Hartley Coleridge

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.