Author Profile
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 – 1834 • English • Poet
59
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 59 quotesGeneral principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.— 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
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
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.— 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
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge