Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes and Sayings


Samuel Taylor Coleridge English critic & poet (1772 - 1834)

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

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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