661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why aren’t more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren’t within everybody’s reach.

No voice; but oh – the silence sank Like music on my heart.

We ne’er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother’s chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

I shot the ALBATROSS.