Quotes
Quotes - Coleridge
Schiller has the material sublime.
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 their best order.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
The soul of man is larger than the sky,
Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.
On this hapless earth
There's small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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 their best order.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Advice is like snowâthe softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo! "God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thus thee!-- Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross."
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wrothe with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
