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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1834] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Dark romanticism, Gothic, Lake Poets, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Transcendentalism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was 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.

Friendship, Imagination, Poetry, Best, Humor, Love, Men, Nature, Sympathy, Architecture, Death, Dreams, Experience, Failure, Faith, Fear, Future, Great, Happiness, Hope, Marriage, Morning, Mother's Day, Politics, Smile, Strength, Trust, Truth, Wisdom

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.		101
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.	Experience, Men	102
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.	Love, Mother's Day	103
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.		104
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.	Best, Hope	105
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.	Failure, Fear, Politics	106
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.	Men	107
Friendship is a sheltering tree.	Friendship	108
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.	Great	109
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.	Imagination, Nature, Trust	110
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.		111
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.		112
Poetry: the best words in the best order.	Best, Poetry	113
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.	Strength	114
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.		115
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.	Future	116
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.	Truth	117
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.	Wisdom	118
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.	Happiness, Smile	119
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?		120
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.		121
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.	Death	122
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.		123
Good and bad men are less than they seem.		124
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.	Friendship	125
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.	Architecture	126
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.	Humor	201
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.		202
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.		203
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.	Faith	204
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.	Dreams	205
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.		206
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.	Nature	207
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.	Friendship, Love, Sympathy	208
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.		209
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.	Poetry	210
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.		211
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.	Imagination	212
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.		213
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.	Marriage	214
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.	Humor	215
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.		216
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.	Poetry	217
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.	Morning	218
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.		219
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.		220
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.	Sympathy	221
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.	Imagination	222
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.		223
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.		224
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.		225
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.		226
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.		301
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.		302
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.		303
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.		304
No one does anything from a single motive.		305
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.		306
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.		307

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