The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
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Hugh Kingsmill, The Progress of a Biographer (1949) p. 94.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I think he was the first man I met who was not afraid of me in some way. We were very similar, like brother and sister. Our spirits are similar. We were the same height and the same age, almost … He was well read and he introduced me to William Blake and also the English Romantic poets who came after him. Jim liked Shelley. I preferred Coleridge. In fact, he is my favoured poet of all time. Did you know they were all drug addicts? Coleridge was addicted to opium. It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.
Nico
It is really, as Coleridge I think said of something else, like reading a story by flashes of lightning!
Thomas Carlyle
Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
Matthew Arnold
[Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
Charles Lamb
When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.
Marshall McLuhan
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