“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode," st. 4, 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.”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”