More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
  2. Shakespeare is the Spinosistic deity - an omnipresent creativeness. Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fie…
  3. Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it …
  4. The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it …
  5. Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
  6. The Pilgrim's Progress is composed in the lowest style of English, without slang or false grammar. If you were to polish it, you would at o…
  7. The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
  8. He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of select…

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