3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Symbolism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on symbolism

21. The imagination...that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

121. The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

127. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.