The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship…

“When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty…

— Karen Armstrong

“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend Vita Sackville-West,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature…

— Ouida

“Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke on various…

— John Keats

I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But…

— John Ruskin

“... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers often come…

— Andrew Elfenbein

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media…

— Peter Redgrove

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

— Charles Lamb

The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor…

— William Godwin

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference…

— Virginia Woolf

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps…

— Arthur Smith

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

— Roy Fuller

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has opened my eyes in many ways.

— Lenny Henry

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

— Charles Lamb