Quote #105
Never pursue literature as a trade.
More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.
- Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
- During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the …
- An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
- The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of th…
- Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
- The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary…
- Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.