661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

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!

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.