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
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.