Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Symbolism
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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.
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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.