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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes about
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.