O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — 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
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light… — 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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 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 thou, my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)… — 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
