This far outstripped the other;
Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
And looks and listens for the boy behind:
For he, alas! is blind!
O'er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
And knows not whether he be first or last.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Time, Real and Imaginary (l. 6-11). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)

my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (l. 75-76). . . Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)

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

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. The Pains of Sleep (l. 51-52). . . Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)

On the wide level of a mountain's head,
(I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place),
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread,
Two lovely children run an endless race,

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Time, Real and Imaginary (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Work without Hope (l. 5-6). . . Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;Mpoetry = the best words in the best order.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. Kathleen Coburn (1990). Table Talk, July 12, 1827, published in Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835).)

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

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. Kathleen Coburn (1990). Table Talk, "5 Oct 1830," Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835).)

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream (l. 25). . . Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)

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

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Love (l. 1-4). . . Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)

And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. The Eolian Harp (l. 45-49). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)