Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The quotations of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, literary critic and philosopher
1772–1834
31 quotes, most often on Nature, Love and Truth & Lies.
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
“Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!“On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)- “A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.Poems Written in Later Life, motto (1826)And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.“The Presence of Love” (1807), ll. 10–11The knight’s bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.“The Knight’s Tomb”, l. 9 (c. 1817)- Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets (1811–1818), Part I: “Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton. 1811–1812”, Lecture I, p. 36
- The Friend (1809–1810), No. 6 (September 21, 1809), p. 91
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.Frost at Midnight, l. 1 (1798)In contextO lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.Dejection: An Ode (1802), St. 4Iago’s soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!
Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets (1811–1818), Part II: “The Lectures and Notes of 1818”, Section IV: “Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare”, § “Othello”, p. 388So for the mother’s sake the child was dear,
And dearer was the mother for the child.“Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me” (1797)- Aids to Reflection (1825), Aphorism 63, p. 89
- Aids to Reflection (1825), Aphorism 1, p. 1
- Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)In context
