661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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

An undevout poet is an impossibility.