Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
Critic
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
Nature
Difference
Involves
May
Design
Extent
Men
Painting
Powers
Time
Differences
Architecture
Greatest
Humility
Teach
Greatness
Art
Exist
Exhibits
Shows
Works
Sculpture

More quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Image
We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
A stately pleasure-dome decree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
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 nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Image
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge