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Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

Quotes from 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?

—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.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

life time happiness compliments

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

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

love heart mother

Swans sing before they die—'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

—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.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from pole to pole.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge