Biographia Literaria

“The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And aye, beside her stalks her amarous knight!Still on his thighs their wonted brogues are worn,And thro' those brogues, still tatter'd and betorn,His hindward charms glean an unearthly white,Ah! thus thro' broken clouds at night's high NoonPeeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon!””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“personally.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“El lenguaje es el arsenal de la mente humana: contiene al mismo tiempo los trofeos de su pasado y las armas de sus futuras conquistas.””

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge