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
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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.