That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge greatness humility art Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! Samuel Taylor Coleridge gunpowder france together Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. Samuel Taylor Coleridge maids friendship two Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault. Samuel Taylor Coleridge introducing faults mind When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge unity results form Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge laughter expression laughing That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. Samuel Taylor Coleridge sublime cutting hands Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. Samuel Taylor Coleridge company language use Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Samuel Taylor Coleridge liberty sky blue Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! Samuel Taylor Coleridge luxury hours Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! Samuel Taylor Coleridge hunting motive awful The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. Samuel Taylor Coleridge nonsense use Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. Samuel Taylor Coleridge woe fellowship taught Ancestral voices prophesying war. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prophecy voice war No sound is dissonant which tells of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge sound Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. Samuel Taylor Coleridge source reason water If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse. Samuel Taylor Coleridge devil angel men Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tears heart tree Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action. Samuel Taylor Coleridge animal men thinking The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols. Samuel Taylor Coleridge form figures artist
