Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination Copy Share Image
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dawn Copy Share Image
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intellect Copy Share Image
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beautiful Copy Share Image
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friend Copy Share Image
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Consequence Copy Share Image
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Church Copy Share Image
“Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry Copy Share Image
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adversity Copy Share Image
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forethought Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beautiful Copy Share Image
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Life Copy Share Image
“For lo! the New-moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light, (With swimming phantom light o'erspread But rimmed and circled by a silver… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moon Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Golden rule Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Appetite Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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