My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge imagination self giving Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tranquility names fame Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. Samuel Taylor Coleridge farce tragedy essence Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element! Samuel Taylor Coleridge issues voice sweet And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? Samuel Taylor Coleridge what-if intellectual soul I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspired depth book How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50? Samuel Taylor Coleridge sorrow christian sea Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. Samuel Taylor Coleridge girl morning children The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stars sea dark The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. Samuel Taylor Coleridge effort style greek And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge hills nature forests There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. Samuel Taylor Coleridge countenance prophecy faces Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. Samuel Taylor Coleridge despair guilt men The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mechanic shapes hands I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge discipline self believe Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge satisfaction reason reason-why The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. Samuel Taylor Coleridge excess excellence writing Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Samuel Taylor Coleridge funeral heaven death Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss? Samuel Taylor Coleridge bliss kissing danger We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge compulsion made happiness
