Quotes · Skopia

32 quotes

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1805

★ 1.0

Letter

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1826

★ 1.2

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1814

★ 1.9

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Poem · Narrative poem

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1817

★ 1.9

Bygone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope-those twin realities of this phantom world!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Poem · Narrative poem

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.0

Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 2.0

Poem · Narrative poem

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

Poem · Narrative poem

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

Personal journal

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 the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1816

★ 3.5

He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1825

★ 3.5

The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Improvisatore · 1828

★ 3.5

Poem

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

1799

★ 3.6

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1817

★ 3.6

Shakespeare...is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 3.6

Poem · Narrative poem

Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine one countree?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

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