Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Copy Share Image
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bears Copy Share Image
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Common sense Copy Share Image
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Affection 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
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chance Copy Share Image
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ability Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Absurd Copy Share Image
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Desert Copy Share Image
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charity Copy Share Image
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Church Copy Share Image
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Desire Copy Share Image
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge God Copy Share Image
Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Affection Copy Share Image
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Accidents Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Architecture Copy Share Image
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image