661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.