Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Writing

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing, Plagiarism, Stolen

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing, Vocabulary, Prose Poetry

Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing, Excellence, Excess

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2584, e-artnow

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Memories, Writing, Imagination

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.136

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