3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Balance

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on balance

99. Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

114. This power...reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general with the concrete; the idea with the image; the individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual order; judgment ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry.

142. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.