The quotations of

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

1772–1834

31 quotes, most often on Nature, Love and Truth & Lies.

In nature there is nothing melancholy.
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
- Nature
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Work without Hope (1825), ll. 13-14
- Hope
- Work
It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
- Experience
- Talking
Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,
Love them for what they are; nor love them less,
Because to thee they are not what they were.
Duty surviving Self-Love (1826)
- Friendship
- Love
From my early reading of Faery Tales, & Genii &c &c — my mind had been habituated to the Vast — & I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief.
Letter to Thomas Poole (16 October 1797); ed. Griggs (1956), vol. 1, p. 354
- Reading
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.
Kubla Khan (1816), Kubla KhanIn context
- Poetry
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 drank the milk of Paradise.
Kubla Khan (1816), Kubla KhanIn context
- Genius
- Poetry
With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross!
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIn context
- Animals
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
- Nature
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part VIIIn context
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Frost at Midnight (1798)In context
- Nature
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roar’d and howl’d,
Like noises in a swound!
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIn context
- Nature
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Liv’d on; and so did I.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IVIn context
- Life & Death

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