Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Beauty
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Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
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Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.
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I see, not feel, how beautiful you are!
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A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth.
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Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
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The most general definition of beauty...Multeity in Unity.
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The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.