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
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.