Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet Critic English 1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet and author of Kubla Khan.

379 quotes

"My heart has thanked thee, Bowman Brown, for many a cheerful ray."
Gratitude
"Books are a quieter type of magic."
Literature
"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."
Education
"Methinks, I have a mighty animation to argue."
Motivation
"Love is flower-like; Friendship is steady and constant."
Love
"The mind of a man is capable of anything because everything is in it."
Imagination
"What comes once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, and never in one hundred years?"
Humor
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
Courage
"The beauty of the world has been granted to us by nature."
Beauty
"This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison taught me that peace comes from acceptance."
Peace
"Science is the Knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
Science
"Silence is also speech."
Solitude
"We receive but what we give, and in our life alone does nature live."
Nature
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Philosophy
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."
Dreams
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Friendship
"Human life means action and change, therefore Inaction and changelessness are the laws of Death."
Change
"A man's second childhood begins when he loses his first wife."
Humor
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Knowledge
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."
Humor
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
Philosophy
"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us."
History
"The language of all love is one, though the accent may differ."
Love
"Advice is like castor oil—easy enough to give but dreadfully uneasy to take."
Wisdom
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge."
Health
"Faith is the aperture of the inward sense of the Infinite."
Faith
"We are all asleep and dreaming; what we call waking is merely another form of sleep."
Philosophy
"The poet brings the whole soul of man into activity."
Art
"Light or flame without heat is an impossiblity."
Science