661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

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

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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