Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Literary Remains, Vol. 1

2. 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 us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

3. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

4. A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

5. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

6. He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

7. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. The Complete Poems

8. Poetry: the best words in the best order.

9. Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

10. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

11. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

12. that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

13. Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other. Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

14. To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. The Complete Poems

15. Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

16. What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then? The Complete Poems