6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Storytelling

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on storytelling

34. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'

36. He holds him with his glittering eye - The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.

70. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.

73. 'Ha! ha!' quoth he, 'full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row.'

76. The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

112. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.