Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk, Devil, Appear

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

Genius, Literature, Wit

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

Woman, Desire, Rarely

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Made, Principle, Gothic

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

Great, Hope, Government

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

Men, Experience, Ship

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

School, True, Put

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

Soul, Whole, Body

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

Language, Written, Works

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 21, 1772

Died: July 25, 1834

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