If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination Copy Share Image
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intellect Copy Share Image
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dawn Copy Share Image
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Facts 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 Dream Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way, And wiser men than I went worse astray.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Age Copy Share Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination Copy Share Image
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Church Copy Share Image
“Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry Copy Share Image
The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dream Copy Share Image
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Authority Copy Share Image
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beloved Copy Share Image
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intolerance Copy Share Image
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alive Copy Share Image
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Body Copy Share Image
