Her skin was white as leprosy. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; Samuel Taylor Coleridge famous-loveflamesheart If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge devilangelmen Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge eventsspirittoday We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge poisonhalfself The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge formbearsbeauty Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge queensinsomniasleep Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge valentines-daysympathylove I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mencountryblood 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 flowerdreammen Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge philosophydeathchildren The bride hath paced into the hall, Samuel Taylor Coleridge redflowerrose All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge selfishnessvirtuesympathy 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 imaginationwritingmemories Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge reformatheismmind 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 successmotivationallife Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge foolpoetrymay Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge autumndreambeautiful And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, Samuel Taylor Coleridge love-youlifeheaven And in Life's noisiest hour, Samuel Taylor Coleridge fashionheartlife In many ways doth the full heart reveal Samuel Taylor Coleridge full-heartsheartlife
