What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE