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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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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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