The genius of the Spanish people is exqu... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People Being philosopher poet Genius

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.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination Being

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Enthusiasm Nothing

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bible Being Will Writer

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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