The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — 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
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — 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 these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 borrowing. Examine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image