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 More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 circles eye hair I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passion winning may An undevout poet is an impossibility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge impossibility poet poetry I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Samuel Taylor Coleridge would-be children world He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prayer love life Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. Samuel Taylor Coleridge voice earth god Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge strength atheist heart Within today, tomorrow is already walking. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tomorrow walking today Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge greatness goodness mean All nature seems at work. Samuel Taylor Coleridge garden seems He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge physicians medicine hope The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. Samuel Taylor Coleridge perception imagination mind The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. Samuel Taylor Coleridge definitions poetry attention Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge support democracy blood To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge growth different believe Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Samuel Taylor Coleridge childhood feelings men The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge definition-of-beauty unity definitions Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stalking solemn long Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Samuel Taylor Coleridge flower love-is life Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. Samuel Taylor Coleridge plagiarism stolen writing
