Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes - Page 2

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

In nature there is nothing melancholy

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread.
For he on honey-dew hath fed.
And drunk the milk of paradise.

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.