Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, famous for works like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." A central figure of the Romantic movement, his ideas deeply influenced English literature. He is also known for his creative collaborations with William Wordsworth and his exploration of imagination and the supernatural. Here are 312 of his quotes:

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge