Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834
Birthday: October 21
Death: July 25
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.230
topic: Book, Saying Less, Years, Raphael, Fruit Trees, Milton
