Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTo all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and… ▶371Truth
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNo voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. ✨ 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6361Love
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2012). The Rime of the Ancient… ▶372Death
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodri… ▶372HumorThought
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Co… ▶351Politics
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAnd in today already walks tomorrow. ✨ Wallenstein (1800).362Reading
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSummer has set in with its usual severity. ✨ Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826373Reading
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAll powerful souls have kindred with each other ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosop… ▶362Politics
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoetry: the best words in the best order. ✨ Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)362Reflection
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ✨ Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)373HopeTime
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSome persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our neve… ▶374HumanityThought
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTo see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. ✨ Table Talk 17 Apr. 1823 (1835)352Reading
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeJoy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suf… ▶374Death
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAnd though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they… ▶352Love
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeGreatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as in… ▶353DeathLoveThought
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIgnorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (18… ▶331Politics
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAll nature seems at work. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological … ▶342Time
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIgnorance seldom vaults into knowledge. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical an… ▶331Sadness
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more co… ▶342Life
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIf people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!342Humanity
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. ✨ Samuel Ta… ▶364Reading
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). Samuel Taylor Cole… ▶364HumanityThought
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated), p.3340… ▶342Hope
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHow well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.376Life
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHe went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. ✨ 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 7365Sadness
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel T… ▶365Time
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSo will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. <… ▶311Hope
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFor she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816). Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep, p.30377Sadness
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA stately pleasure-dome decree. ✨ Kubla Khan l. 1 (1816)355Politics
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThere are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. ✨ Samuel Tayl… ▶355Time
