Frasi di Samuel Taylor Coleridge (248 frasi, pagina 4)

Origine: Da una lettera del 1798 a George H. Coleridge; citato in Andrew Weil e Winifred Rosen, Dal cioccolato alla morfina. Tutto quello che dovete sapere sulle sostanze che alterano la mente, traduzione di Fabio Bernabei, Arcana, Roma, 2007, p. 107.

“La più generale definizione della bellezza […] Molteplicità nell'Unità.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Origine: Da On the Principles of Genial Criticism.

“L'esperienza ci informa che la prima difesa degli spiriti deboli è recriminare.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Origine: da Biographia literaria, 1817.

“Quella volontaria sospensione dell'incredulità sul momento, che costituisce la fede poetica.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Origine: Da Biographia literaria, 1817 – cap. XIV.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan

“[I lettori possono essere:] 1) spugne, che assorbono tutto quello che leggono, lo restituiscono nello stesso stato, solo un poco insudiciato; 2) orologi a sabbia, che non ritengono nulla, e sono contenti di percorrere un libro tanto per passare il tempo; 3) filtri, che trattengono solo la feccia di quel che leggono; 4) diamanti di Mogol, come questo rari e preziosi, che approfittano di quel che leggono, e rendono altri capaci di profittarne.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Origine: Da Poesie e prose, Torino, 1931, p. 124; citato in Aldo D'Asdia e Pietro Mazzamuto, Letteratura italiana, Pagine di documentazione critica, Felice Le Monnier, Firenze, 1973<sup>9</sup>, p. 9.

“La felicità della vita è fatta di frazioni infinitesimali: di piccole elemosine, presto dimenticate, di un bacio, di un sorriso, di uno sguardo gentile, di un complimento fatto col cuore.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Il buon senso in misura non comune è ciò che il mondo chiama saggezza.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frasi in inglese

“To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On taking Leave of ———— (1817)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.”

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"The Knight's Tomb" (c. 1817)

“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”

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"The Ovidian Elegiac Metre" (translated from Schiller) (1799)

“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”

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The Friend; A Series of Essays (1812), No. 15 (30 November 1809), p. 228
Cf. Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676): "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants".

“Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)

“Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven
Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun
Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower
Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?
'God!' let the torrents, like a shout of nations,
Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, 'God!'
'God! ' sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow,
And in their perilous fall shall thunder, 'God!'.”

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"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)

“An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. IX

“He has no native Passion, because he is not a Thinker — & has probably weakened his Intellect by the haunting Fear of becoming extravagant.”

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Letter to William Sotheby (10 September 1802)
Letters

“Truths … are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”

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Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 1

“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.”

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The Friend, No. 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He saw a lawyer killing a viper
On a dunghill hard, by his own stable
And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of
Cain and his brother, Abel.”

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"The Devils Thoughts" (c. 1834)

“Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part I, l. 237
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)

“Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. IX

“God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it.”

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Letter to Thomas Poole (23 March 1801)
Letters

“The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIII

“It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)

“What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”

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"What is an Epigram?" http://books.google.com/books?id=xUggAAAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+an+Epigram+A+dwarfish+whole+Its+body+brevity+and+wit+its+soul%22&pg=PA253#v=onepage, The Morning Post, ( 23 September 1802 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000175/18020923/007/0003)

“The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.”

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On Poesy or Art (1818)

“The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIII

“I stood in unimaginable trance
And agony that cannot be remembered.”

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Remorse, Act iv, scene 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)