Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on God
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher and one of the central figures of English Romanticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will end by loving himself better than all.”
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“Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there .”
Epitaph on an Infant", l. 1 (1794) -
“O! the one Life, within us and abroad, Which meets all Motion, and becomes its soul, A Light in Sound, a sound-like power in Light, Rhythm in all Thought, and Joyance every where.”
The Eolian Harp ", st. 2 (wr. 1795; pub. 1796) -
“And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversly fram'd, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?”
The Eolian Harp", st. 3 (wr. 1795; pub. 1796)