More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. 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…
  2. Schiller has the material sublime.
  3. The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
  4. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, - as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' …
  5. Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. I…
  6. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
  7. The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
  8. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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