Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I readily believe that there are more invisible than visible Natures in the universe. But who will explain for us the family… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — 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
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes… — 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
