“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode," st. 5, 1802

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.”

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

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

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that a resistance is overcome.”

“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”