“The law of love, which is freedom; if we could only be ruled by that!” — Mary Coleridge | V2Melody

“The law of love, which is freedom; if we could only be ruled by that!”

Linking genuine love with freedom rather than possession or coercion · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1897–1907

Love
Truth

About Mary Coleridge

Mary Coleridge

23 September 1861–25 August 1907

In the twilight of the Victorian era, when the literary world was dominated by towering figures like Tennyson, Browning, and Swinburne, a quieter voice emerged from the shadows of London's Hyde Park Square. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, born on September 23, 1861, would prove to be one of the most intriguing and…

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“Feeling goes higher and deeper, is at the same time more instinctive and animal, and more divine.”

Giving feeling a range that reaches from instinct to the spiritual · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1897–1907

Faith
Truth

“One gets a hunger for certain faces and to feel a certain kind of love round one.”

Capturing the bodily immediacy of longing for familiar affection · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1894

“Why are a man's words bound to be true, when half his deeds at least are sure to be false?”

Questioning the easy assumption that speech reveals character more faithfully than action · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1888

Truth