Top 380 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

102. “This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

103. “How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

104. “A new Earth and new Heaven.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

105. “Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

106. “For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

107. “I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

108. “Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

109. “Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

110. “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.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

111. “Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

112. “Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

113. “Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze – On me alone it blew.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

114. “A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

115. “Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, The glorious Sun uprist.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

117. “And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

119. “An orphan’s curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man’s eye!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

120. “The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

121. “May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

122. “That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

124. “No voice; but oh – the silence sank Like music on my heart.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

125. “In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

126. “A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

127. “The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

128. “The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

129. “Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

130. “Memory, bosom-spring of joy.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

131. “Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

132. “For mother’s sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

133. “Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

134. “To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

135. “Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

136. “The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

137. “He went like one that hath been stunn’d, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

138. “The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

139. “And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

140. “The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

141. “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.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

142. “Within today, tomorrow is already walking.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

143. “Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all. The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom’s door.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

144. “A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

145. “Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

146. “Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

147. “Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

148. “The sun’s rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o’er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

149. “Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

150. “Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge