Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridgewas an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases,...
hidden month night noise quiet sleeping woods
A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.
cracked ice noises
The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, / Like noises in a swound!
harbour ship
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,/ Merrily did we drop.
beautiful
I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
dreams substances tale
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
best words
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
rush stars stride
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
carried however itself minds weak
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
certainly good house palace poetry
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house
greater ideas mankind possess possessed wise
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
discovers hasten heart
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it
anchors april clearing happiness health monday sail sound voices
Signals, Drums, Guns, Bells, & the sound of Voices weighing up & clearing Anchors ... Monday April 9th, 1804, really set sail ... No health or Happiness without Work.
house life mates youth
Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still
caves miracle rare sunny
It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!