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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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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.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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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.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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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.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.


— 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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