661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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

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