661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He prayeth best who loveth best.

God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.