“Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anima Poetae from the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and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 Taylor Coleridge“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge