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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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...

More quotations from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

—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

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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

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

—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

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

—Abraham Lincoln

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

—Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

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The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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