The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge intelligence mind inspirational The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Samuel Taylor Coleridge autumn light fall The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty. Samuel Taylor Coleridge liberty self men The river Rhine, it is well known, Samuel Taylor Coleridge cities rain rivers Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ships stuck ocean All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair Samuel Taylor Coleridge dream winter spring I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense. Samuel Taylor Coleridge men science fall How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge dancing dance children We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome. Samuel Taylor Coleridge differences dancing dance All powerful souls have kindred with each other Samuel Taylor Coleridge powerful soul sympathy Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prose-and-poetry communication science No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passion men profound Alas! they had been friends in youth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge poison brain life Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. Samuel Taylor Coleridge aphorism abstract men You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. Samuel Taylor Coleridge belief believe A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Samuel Taylor Coleridge june sleep night My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. Samuel Taylor Coleridge addiction madness intellectual He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam. Samuel Taylor Coleridge pain stars dream That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! Samuel Taylor Coleridge sky blue men He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge devil brother mind
