Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams!

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

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

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

So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.

Awake, my soul! not only passive praise Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy. Awake, Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.

I shot the ALBATROSS.

Lingering he raised his latch at eve, Though tired in heart and limb: He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.

Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.

Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity!

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.