661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver’s brain.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other.

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

Why look’st thou so?‘ – With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.