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
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.