No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Great poet Copy Share Image
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Excess Copy Share Image
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jews Copy Share Image
“On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Calvinism Copy Share Image
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Brain Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Curiosity Copy Share Image
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Absolutes Copy Share Image
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Astronomy Copy Share Image
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dark Copy Share Image
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blind Copy Share Image
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abstract Copy Share Image
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Desire Copy Share Image
“They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dreams Copy Share Image
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christ Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Anguish Copy Share Image
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fool Copy Share Image
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Acting Copy Share Image
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amendments Copy Share Image
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Conscience Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity Copy Share Image
Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blessed Copy Share Image
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Human language Copy Share Image
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge Copy Share Image
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
