black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Related Topics

Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Alcohol Carefully Egotism Heaven Hell Intense Mark Milton Regin Satan Selfishness Serve
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Angel Depend Devil Downward Man Rise Sinki Upward
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Already Today Tomorrow Walk
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Blest Hour Luxury
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Acting Constitute Genuis Lawless Must Orinibnation Power Under
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes