11 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Beauty

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on beauty

5. Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.

39. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

49. Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

78. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

83. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

87. Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.

91. I see, not feel, how beautiful you are!

93. A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth.

94. Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.

96. The most general definition of beauty...Multeity in Unity.

97. The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.