Samuel Taylor Coleridge Genius Quotations

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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.