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— Samuel Taylor Coleridge"The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols."
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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
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