A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blessedness Copy Share Image
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fanciful Copy Share Image
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Full hearts Copy Share Image
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Art of happiness Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illness Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alcohol Copy Share Image
Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alms Copy Share Image
During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Habit Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Choices Copy Share Image
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Admiration Copy Share Image
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amusement Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fear Copy Share Image
Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Affection Copy Share Image
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abraham Copy Share Image
“There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
“All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Astronomy Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amen Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hope Copy Share Image
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ballet Copy Share Image
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Belief Copy Share Image
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image