People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
