“Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime.” — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“power of his poetry to minister deeply to the likes of an opium addict such as Samuel Coleridge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope. — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it. — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?"… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet… — LeRoy C. Breunig Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
