Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Birthdate: October 21, 1772
Birthplace: Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: July 25, 1834
Occupation: Critic, Philosopher, and Poet
Profile: Regarded as a founder of the Romantic Movement in England. Best known for
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
Number of Quotes: 3
Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or
opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.