“A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IV

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”

“He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.”

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are also worthy of love and belonging.”

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”