Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plain Language, Imagination

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Study, Intense

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.177

• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Style

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

• Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Rhythm, Melody

  "Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

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