“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
1772 – 1834
English Romantic poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
“A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware.”
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”
“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”
“There is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of reflection.”
“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice!”
“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.”
“Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.”
“Love them for what they are; nor love them less, Because to thee they are not what they were.”
“In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.”
“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”
