Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Style
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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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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.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.
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