Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. Samuel Taylor Coleridge lovelyholychrist Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ignorantunderstandingignorance Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge humormenfunny A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mothers-daymotherhoodmom He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspirational-lifepreparationmoments All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. Samuel Taylor Coleridge familyhappinesslove Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge gentlebelovedsleep Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge hornyhornsdevil 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 seariversmen 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 talentcriticismpeople Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge julyusualsummer This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge angelblessinginspirational Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, Samuel Taylor Coleridge nectarhopework O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. Samuel Taylor Coleridge our-livesdoegiving Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. Samuel Taylor Coleridge selfishnessalcoholheaven 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 plain-languagecommunicationimagination The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion! Samuel Taylor Coleridge readingdrinkingmen Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge communicationbusinesspast Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry . Samuel Taylor Coleridge returnessentialsnames And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge circleseyehair
