The principle of the Gothic architecture... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

philosopher poet critic Architecture romanticism

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Desire Man

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dreams Man Life

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Order Words

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Marriage Man

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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