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
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
All nature seems at work.
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man