Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• 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

  People, Criticism, Talent

  Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton Lecture 1 (1811 - 1812)

• To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Character, Years

• Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sports, Toys, Talent

• 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

  Imagination, Intellectual, Energy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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