More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth, and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the …
  2. The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
  3. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
  4. Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. I…
  5. It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, d…
  6. The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
  7. This power...reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the gener…
  8. The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every...minutest fib…

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