Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. Samuel Taylor Coleridge be-good evil 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 lovely holy christ Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ignorant understanding ignorance Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge humor men funny A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mothers-day motherhood mom He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspirational-life preparation moments All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. Samuel Taylor Coleridge family happiness love Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge gentle beloved sleep Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge horny horns devil 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 sea rivers men 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 talent criticism people Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge july usual summer This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge angel blessing inspirational Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, Samuel Taylor Coleridge nectar hope work O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. Samuel Taylor Coleridge our-lives doe giving 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 selfishness alcohol heaven 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-language communication imagination 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 reading drinking men 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 communication business past 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 return essentials names
