661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.