Imagination Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

17 Imagination quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s imagination fuels his Romantic sensibility, and these seventeen quotes showcase his blend of philosophical depth and lyrical flair. The selection offers a concise yet evocative glimpse into his poetic mind.

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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in…

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to…

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the…

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and…

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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)…

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of…

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very…

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere…

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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration…

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher…

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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each…

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The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the…

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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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…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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