People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Death Copy Share Image
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Doctor Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Being me Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Copy Share Image
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 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
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
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
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
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beautiful 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
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Business Copy Share Image
“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love Copy Share Image
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beloved Copy Share Image
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Authority 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
“He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Best things Copy Share Image
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Antiques Copy Share Image
“He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beast Copy Share Image
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paradise Copy Share Image