661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.