Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state… — 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
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! — 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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take… — 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
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
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — 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