Quote

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
Critic
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
Race
Face
Poor
Faces
Littles
Languid
Little
Oppressed
Love
Patience
Animal

More quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Image
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge