Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Unity

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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unity, Definitions, Definition Of Beauty

"On the Principles of Genial Criticism". Essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unity, Form, Results

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters”, p.197

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beautiful, Passion, Unity

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.183, Classic Books Company