12 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on love

10. All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

16. And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

17. And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

26. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree.

27. In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

62. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.

74. Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

75. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

90. And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

131. The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

159. Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou fret? Then only might'st thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.

160. O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed, While, and on whom, thou may'st - shine on! nor heed Whether the object by reflected light Return thy radiance or absorb it quite: And tho' thou notest from thy safe recess Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air, Love them for what they are ; nor love them less, Because to thee they are not what they were.