Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet critic

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The more. .

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: What comes from the heart goes to the heart. #Heart

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. #Motivation

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. #Arts and Artists

“ 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. #Desire

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History. #Religion

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. #Mind

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all. #Business

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land. #Parliament

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. #Addiction

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. #Humor

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. #Greatness

“ 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. #Language

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. #Experience

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. #Alcohol and Alcoholism

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. #Christians and Christianity

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. #Ideas

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: No one does anything from a single motive. #Motivation

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. #Common Sense

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling. #Things and Little Things

“ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? #Fame

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