Discipline Quote by John Ruskin

“I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after all Coleridge is nothing more than an intellectual opium-eatera man of many crude though lovely thoughtsof confused though brilliant imagination, liable to much errorerror even of the heart, very sensual in many ofhis ideas of pleasureindolent to a degree, and evidently and always thinkingwithout discipline; letting the fine brains which God gave him work themselves irregularly and without end or objectand carry him whither they will. Wordsworth has a grand, consistent, perfectly disciplined, all grasping intellectfor which nothing is too small, nothing too great, arranging everything indue relations, divinely pure inits conventions of pleasure, majestic in the equanimity of its benevolenceintense as white fire with chastened feeling. Coleridge may be the greater poet, but surely it admits of no question which is the greater man.”

— John Ruskin