Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Iago’s soliloquy—the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity.

Of no age—nor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

In Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang’d with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne;  But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.