Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor 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,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 October 1772
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Her skin was white as leprosy.
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.