Top 380 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

52. “Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

53. “He prayeth best who loveth best.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

54. “Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

55. “The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

56. “Her skin was white as leprosy.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

57. “During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

58. “The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

59. “I ago’s soliloquy – the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity – how awful it is!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

60. “The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

61. “I shot the ALBATROSS.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

62. “Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

63. “Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

64. “Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

65. “O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

66. “In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

67. “That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

68. “Silence does not always mark wisdom.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

69. “And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

70. “Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

71. “A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

72. “Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

73. “The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

74. “Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro’me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

75. “The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

76. “A spring of love gush’d from my heart, And I bless’d them unaware.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

77. “The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope’s gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

78. “He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

79. “Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

81. “Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

82. “To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

83. “Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

84. “It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

85. “And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

86. “Ancestral voices prophesying war.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

87. “Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two – The friend I’ve wept and the maid I woo.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

88. “The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

89. “To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

90. “Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

91. “I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

92. “The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulders to mount on.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

93. “There is nothing insignificant-nothing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

94. “He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

95. “Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

96. “It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

97. “Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

98. “Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

99. “Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

100. “An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge