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
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.