Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a renowned English poet, critic, and philosopher. Born in 1772, Coleridge played a pivotal role in the Romantic literary movement. His most famous works include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Coleridge's vivid imagination and lyrical style of writing captivated readers worldwide. As an SEO-friendly bio, it is important to mention that he was a close associate of William Wordsworth, a prominent Romantic poet. Coleridge's contributions to poetic theory and his innovative use of language make him an essential figure in English literature.

To meet, to know, to love - and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge