The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bride Copy Share Image
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Painting Copy Share Image
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Animal Copy Share Image
“Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cities Copy Share Image
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Experience Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath, Love is a sword that cuts its sheath, And thro' the clefts, itself has made,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love Copy Share Image
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Copy Share Image
“They parted—ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Energy Copy Share Image
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Curse Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Copy Share Image
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Defence Copy Share Image
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
“Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enemy Copy Share Image
“He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beast Copy Share Image
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paradise Copy Share Image
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge History Copy Share Image
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Expression Copy Share Image
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Administer Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Apes Copy Share Image