Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

• ‘God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

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• He holds him with his glittering eye—The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

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• It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?’

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• No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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• So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.

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• Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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• To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

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• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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• No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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• I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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• The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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• Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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• I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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• A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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• A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (128)

Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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