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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, renowned for his works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. A leading figure in the Romantic movement, his work has had a significant impact on English literature.

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Famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”

Men Should May Art Shows Differences Teach Design Greatness Humility Painting Architecture Works Of Art Sculpture Exhibits Greatness Of Man

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.”

Should Reason Found Causes Imagination Minutes Should Have Mathematics Desert Paradise Consideration Length Scrutiny Dreary Admirer Quintessence

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.”

Should Strong Moral Cases Ten Blow Obligation Very Strong Narcotics Moral Obligation Stimulants

Book:Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources

Source: Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources

“Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.”

“Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.”

Should Friends Multitudes Boast

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.”

Should Firsts May Next Color Flower Manage Our Thoughts Select Shepherds Brightness Garlands

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.”

Ifs Men Should May Book Existence Worthless

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.”

Should Heart Shows Color Should Have Feds Leafs Insects Fiber Fed Up

Book:Letters: selected & with an introd

Source: Letters: selected & with an introd

“Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.”

Should Two Three Interesting Dog Easier Cat Should Have Bees Hives

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.”

Should Eye Heard Cry Hair Holy Rounds Circles Drunk Paradise Feds Honey Milk Dread Floating Dew Thrice

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.”

Ifs Should Writing Language Imagination Attention Written Style Ought Pages Faults Mediums Prose Imaginative Noticing Plain Language

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Should Persons Death Certain Dies Nature Bad Things Swans

Book:The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya

Source: The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya

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

Should Language Imagination Written Communication Imaginative English Language Written Language Plain Language

Book:On the Constitution of the Church and State

Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State

“There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.”

People Should Art Meditation Masters Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge