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Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Portrait after a picture by Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

1772–1834

31 quotes, most often on Nature, Love and Truth & Lies.

The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
Frost at Midnight, l. 1 (1798)In context
- Nature
O lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.
Dejection: An Ode (1802), St. 4
- Nature
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
- Nature
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
- Nature
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Frost at Midnight (1798)In context
- Nature
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roar’d and howl’d,
Like noises in a swound!
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIn context
- Nature

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