Famous quotes containing the words samuel taylor coleridge, samuel taylor, taylor, coleridge, literary and/or criticism:
“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)