6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Language

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on language

9. In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

103. An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

119. The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

129. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

138. 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 once destroy the reality of the vision. For works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

148. Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.