WIST

To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
“The Pains of Sleep,” l. 51-52 (1803)
first publ 1816

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
(Attributed)

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
(Attributed)

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Aids to Reflection,

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Bibliographica Literia, ch. 11 (1817)

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Lyrical Ballads, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 615-618 (1798)

For works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Table Talk (31 May 1830)
On Pilgrim's Progress. Source text.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Table Talk (5 Oct. 1830)

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Table Talk, 18 Dec 1831 (1835)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
The Statesman’s Manual (1816)