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Ocean and sea3 quotes
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Poetry3 quotes
Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817Poetry 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 · 1834The moon3 quotes
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798In 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 · 1805Sailing2 quotes
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The night sky2 quotes
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Adventure1 quote
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Astronomy1 quote
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Atonement1 quote
The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Beauty1 quote
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 · 1814Beginning of a journey1 quote
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Christianity1 quote
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 · 1825Curvature of the earth1 quote
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Discovery1 quote
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Dreams1 quote
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 · 1816False humility1 quote
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1799Fear1 quote
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 · 1798Fear and politics1 quote
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834Friendship1 quote
Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1828Happiness1 quote
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 · 1828Happiness in marriage1 quote
You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834Heaven1 quote
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 · 1816Home1 quote
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 · 1798Homecoming1 quote
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 · 1798Irony1 quote
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Isolation1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Loneliness1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Love1 quote
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 · 1799Man and animals1 quote
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 · 1798Marriage1 quote
You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834Memories1 quote
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