“He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Best things Copy Share Image
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Antiques Copy Share Image
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Body Copy Share Image
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Acting Copy Share Image
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Devil Copy Share Image
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Disbelief Copy Share Image
“About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Caverns Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dream Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Antithesis Copy Share Image
Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blessing Copy Share Image
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Better world Copy Share Image
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Artist Copy Share Image
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
“This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Habit Copy Share Image
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alms Copy Share Image
During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alcohol Copy Share Image
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination Copy Share Image
“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Age Copy Share Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
