Frasi di Samuel Taylor Coleridge (248 frasi, pagina 6)

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.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frasi in inglese

““They did not like to retain God in their knowledge” (Rom. i. 28), and though they could not extinguish “the Light that lighteth every man,” and which “shone in the darkness;” yet because the darkness could not comprehend the Light, they refused to bear witness of it, and worshipped, instead, the shaping mist, which the Light had drawn upward from the ground (i. e., from the mere animal nature and instinct), and which that Light alone had made visible”

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i.e., by super-inducing on the animal instinct the principle of self-consciousness
Aids to Reflection (1873), footnote to Aphorism 106 part 13

“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”

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Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, June 14, 1830, (1835) p. 177

“Poor little foal of an oppressèd race!
I love the languid patience of thy face.”

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"To a Young Ass", li. 1 (1794)

“The imagination … that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.”

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"The Statesman's Manual" (1816)

“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.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. I

“Your Sensibilities are tempestuous — you feel Indignation at Weakness — Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred — His looks are "lovely in terror" — yet still remember, who are his Relations.”

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Letter to Robert Southey (29 December 1794).
Letters

“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends. … But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.”

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Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 107

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.”

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29 June 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”

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2 June 1824
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“Shakespeare is the Spinosistic deity — an omnipresent creativeness. Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fiery chariot and four, making the horses feel the iron curb which holds them in. Shakspeare's poetry is characterless; that is, it does not reflect the individual Shakspeare; but John Milton himself is in every line of the Paradise Lost. Shakspeare's rhymed verses are excessively condensed, — epigrams with the point every where; but in his blank dramatic verse he is diffused, with a linked sweetness long drawn out.”

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12 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

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Letter to Thomas Allsop (30 March 1820)
Letters

“Aloof with hermit-eye I scan
The present works of present man —
A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile,
Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!”

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"Ode to Tranquility", st. 4 (1801)

“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part II, l. 408
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)

“They stood aloof, the scars remaining,—
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder:
A dreary sea now flows between.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“A charm
For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
No sound is dissonant which tells of life.”

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This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.”

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A Day-Dream
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.”

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Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
Letters

“But metre itself implies a passion, i. e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.”

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Letter to William Sotheby (13 July 1802)
Letters

“Each matin bell, the Baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?”

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"Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (1895) edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, p. 238

“Her face, oh call it fair, not pale!”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“Around thee and above,
Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black,
An ebon mass; methinks thou piercest it,
As with a wedge! But when I look again,
It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,
Thy habitation from eternity!”

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St. 1
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)

“A lady richly clad as she,
Beautiful exceedingly.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel

Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel

“Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge libro Biographia Literaria

Origine: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. II

“I lay too many Eggs in the hot Sands of this Wilderness, the World! with Ostrich Carelessness & Ostrich Oblivion. The greater part, I trust, are trod underfoot, & smashed; but yet no small number crawl forth into Life, some to furnish Feathers for the Caps of others, & still more to plume the Shafts in the Quivers of my Enemies, of them that lie in wait against my Soul.”

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Notebooks, September/early October 1802
Notebooks

“Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.”

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France, An Ode. v
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”

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The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.”

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9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 235, and various other sources beginning no earlier than 1880; actually an elaboration and modification of a quote by D.W. Clark, The Mount of Blessing (1854), p. 56: "It shall be my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, and its promised rewards shall cheer me in all trials, and sustain me in all sufferings".
Misattributed

“A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.”

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The Three Graves
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)