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
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.