About Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson and American transcendentalism.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeGeneral principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIntense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge