Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone all on a wide, wide sea.

For he on honey drew hath fed. And drunk the milk of Paradise.

A sadder and a wiser man. He rose the morrow morn.

Feat at my heart, as at a cup. My life-blood seem'd to sip.

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page without noticing the medium.

Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?

The stars hang bright above, silent, as if they watched the sleeping earth.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

And the spring comes slowly up this way.

'T is a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way.

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.