He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illness Copy Share Image
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Animal Copy Share Image
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bounds Copy Share Image
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amusement Copy Share Image
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Breeze Copy Share Image
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white moonshine. [...] Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Feelings Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emotion Copy Share Image
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ark Copy Share Image
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Business Copy Share Image
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Business Copy Share Image
“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Doctor Copy Share Image
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Death Copy Share Image
“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love Copy Share Image
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beloved Copy Share Image
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Authority Copy Share Image
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alive Copy Share Image
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intolerance Copy Share Image