Top 380 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Iambics march from short to long; – With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

202. “Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

203. “God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

204. “A rogue is a roundabout fool.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

205. “The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

206. “Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect’s leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

207. “Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

208. “I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

209. “When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

210. “Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

211. “A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

212. “Remorse weeps tears of blood.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

213. “The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

214. “Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

215. “And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

216. “Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

217. “Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

218. “To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

219. “In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

220. “I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

221. “Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

222. “All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

223. “Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

224. “Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

225. “About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

226. “An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

227. “The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

228. “Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

229. “The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

230. “It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

231. “Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

232. “I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

233. “To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

234. “All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

235. “And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

236. “Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

237. “All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

238. “It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

239. “Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

240. “All nature seems at work.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

241. “As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

242. “A stately pleasure-dome decree.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

243. “There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

244. “Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

245. “Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

246. “Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

247. “Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

249. “That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

250. “A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge