10 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Emotion

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on emotion

10. All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

16. And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

27. In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

38. The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.

71. No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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.

115. It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

123. Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

163. Your Sensibilities are tempestuous - you feel Indignation at Weakness - Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred - His looks are 'lovely in terror' - yet still remember, who are his Relations.

167. But metre itself implies a passion, i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.