Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes and sayings page 5 (poet). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 59 we have.
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
“General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.”
“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”
“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.”
“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.”
“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”
“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
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