Samuel Taylor Coleridge Light Quotations

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.