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
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.