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.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSwans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge