3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Meaning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on meaning

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

120. Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

154. I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. A person who should suppose I meant by that word, an arguer, would not only not understand me, but would understand the contrary of my meaning. I can take no interest whatever in hearing or saying any thing merely as a fact - merely as having happened. It must refer to something within me before I can regard it with any curiosity or care. My mind is always energic - I don't mean energetic; I require in every thing what, for lack of another word, I may call propriety, - that is, a reason why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time.