Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
POÈTE ET CRITIQUE LITTÉRAIRE ANGLAIS
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and feebleness. (...) I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization, science, law —in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading the way.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
ENGLISH POET AND LITERARY CRITIC