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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#depression #grief #sadness #tear #nature

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#poetry #sea #supernatural #beauty

In nature there is nothing melancholy


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#nature

What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm ...


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#inspirational

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.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#better #christianity #church #end #himself

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#every #excess #however #itself #minds

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#looks #man #old #she #woman

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#disbelief #faith #moment #poetic #suspension

Friendship is a sheltering tree.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#sheltering #tree

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.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#destruction #devote #himself #itself #man






About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Did you know about Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

William Hazlitt a Unitarian minister's son was in the congregation having walked from Wem in order to hear him. These events cut cruelly into the hearts of old men: but the good Dr. To Coleridge the "cinque spotted spider" making its way upstream "by fits and starts" [Biographia Literaria] is not merely a comment on the intermittent nature of creativity imagination or spiritual progress but the journey and destination of his life.

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. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. He was treated for these concerns with laudanum which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

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