Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The papyrus appears to be an instruction booklet for government officials.
During the Vietnam War the Joint Chiefs of Staff wished direct access to President Johnson. The Secretary of Defense advised the chiefs:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.
