Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Quotations/Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834)

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.

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

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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

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And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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And though 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.

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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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.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,

Through dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean:

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

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Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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No one does anything from a single motive.

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Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

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

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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

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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling

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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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

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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or two beside.

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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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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.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,

Whether the summer clothe the general earth

With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing

Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch

Of mossy apple tree.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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

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

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Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink.

Water, water everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!

That ever this should be!

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs

Upon the slimy sea.

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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?

And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven

and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?

And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?

Ah, what then?

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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