"Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
View all quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge"The happiness of life ... is made up of minute fractions — the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"A mother is a mother still; The holiest thing alive."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"A charm For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of life."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge