| 105 Famous Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.”
Stars Quotes Source: Lines on an Autumnal Evening
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“Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.”
Liberty Quotes Source: France--An Ode (V)
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“The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: The Knight's Tomb
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“All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.”
Work Quotes Source: Work Without Hope (st. 1)
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“He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small.”
Prayer Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII)
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“He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.”
Prayer Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII)
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“The saints will aid if men will call:
For the blue sky bends over all.”
Prayer Quotes Source: Christabel (conclusion to pt. I)
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“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and
stars.”
Churches Quotes Source: The Friend
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“A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.”
Sound Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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“O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
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Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.”
Freedom Quotes Source: Sonnet
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“Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.”
Freedom Quotes Source: Sonnet
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“O! lady, we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone doth nature live;
Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!”
Results Quotes Source: Dejection--An Ode (IV)
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“While many a glowworm in the shade
Lights up her love torch.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: The Nightingale
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“Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.”
Praise Quotes Source: Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni (last line)
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“O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven
That slid into my soul.”
Sleep Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 1)
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“Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,
Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!”
Sleep Quotes Source: Dejection--An Ode (st. 8)
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“Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah, woful when!”
Youth Quotes Source: Youth and Age
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“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.”
Anger Quotes Source: Christabel (pt. II)
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“Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!”
Luxury Quotes Source: Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement (l. 43)
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“Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.”
Hope Quotes Source: Work Without Hope (st. 2)
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“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
Fear Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VI)
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“Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the line:
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage, or Doris,
Only, only, call me thine.”
Names Quotes Source: What's in a Name
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“Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore
they turn critics.”
Criticism Quotes Source: Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (p. 36)
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“A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.”
Brooks Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree;
Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
Rivers Quotes Source: Kubla Khan
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