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1772–1834 England
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) 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 and one of the Lake Poets.
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The knight's bones are dust,
In many ways doth the full heart reveal
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
Work without Hope (1825)
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
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.
Aids to Reflection (1825)
To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!
Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets (1811)
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Great hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Behold! her bosom and half her side—
Christabel (1797)
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;
The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.
The Friend (1809)
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.
Biographia Literaria (1817)
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
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