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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language / religion / government / blood / identity in these makes men of one country.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are / 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • A sight to dream of, not to tell!... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • A spring of love gushed from my heart, / And I blessed them unaware.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}