Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination Quotes

What did Samuel Taylor Coleridge say about Imagination?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge has written many quotes about Imagination. E.g.,

• 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.
• Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

What are the top most famous Imagination quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Imagination by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• 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.
• Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.