105 Famous Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10/21/1772 - 7/25/1834
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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. 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. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism.
Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated by some that he suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition not identified during his lifetime. Coleridge suffered from poor health that may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these concerns with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Future
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
Future
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Liberty
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: France--An Ode (V)
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All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Work
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: Work Without Hope (st. 1)
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and
stars.
Churches
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: The Friend
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A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
Sound
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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O! lady, we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone doth nature live;
Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!
Results
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: Dejection--An Ode (IV)
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O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven
That slid into my soul.
Sleep
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 1)
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Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,
Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!
Sleep
Quotes, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Source: Dejection--An Ode (st. 8)
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