Frases de Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fecha de nacimiento: 21. Octubre 1772
Fecha de muerte: 25. Julio 1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , poeta, crítico y filósofo inglés, quien fue, junto con su amigo William Wordsworth, uno de los fundadores del Romanticismo en Inglaterra y uno de los lakistas. Sus obras más conocidas son, posiblemente, Rime of the Ancient Mariner y Kubla Khan, así como su obra en prosa Biographia Literaria.
Frases Samuel Taylor Coleridge
„Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
„Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains, Vol. 1
„Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not!“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
l. 9.
„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.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: 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.
„Awake,
Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake!
Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: Awake, my soul! not only passive praise
Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears,
Mute thanks and secret ecstasy. Awake,
Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake!
Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.
„The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Ch. XIV.
„I worshipped the Invisible alone.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee,
Till thou, still present to the bodily sense,
Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer,
I worshipped the Invisible alone.
„Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
„Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
„And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: p>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.</p
"[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Presence_Love.html The Presence of Love]" (1807), lines 1-4.
„A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Context: A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection; and trust more to your imagination than to your memory.
22 September 1830.
