“Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets, 1811-1818

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

“A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware.”

“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”