The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspiration Copy Share Image
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Art Copy Share Image
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Architecture Copy Share Image
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. — 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
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
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
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 author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books 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
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Desire Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — 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 Birth Copy Share Image
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charity 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
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Curse Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Energy Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — 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 Birth Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — 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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“For lo! the New-moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light, (With swimming phantom light o'erspread But rimmed and circled by a silver… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moon Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
