Quotes from Coleridge

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm ...

I have a smack of Hamlet myself , if I do say so .

infancy presents body and spirit in unity

Infancy presents body and spirit in unity: the body is all animated.

Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.