That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Psychology Copy Share Image
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Being alone Copy Share Image
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Despair Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christian Copy Share Image
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Affectionate Copy Share Image
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Addiction Copy Share Image
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blind Copy Share Image
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Great minds Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Copy Share Image
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Choices Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fear Copy Share Image
Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Absurd 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 the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flowers Copy Share Image
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dreaming Copy Share Image
“Day after day, day after day, 115 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blue and white Copy Share Image
“Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day, So sweetly, that they stirred and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dreams Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image