Mariner Quotes

“Here Coleridge advances the beautiful suggestive idea that the poetic imagination can hold open for us a shape or a space we have yet to grow into. The great works of art and literature are, as it were, making room for our future insights, giving us the shapes, the stories, the images into which the undeveloped antennae of our inner life can grow.”
― Malcolm Guite, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Throughout our reading of this poem we must have this sense of expansion: of height, of depth, of unrealised potential, of being more and more in touch with invisible realities glimmering through the visible.”
― Malcolm Guite, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“After all his peregrinations, Coleridge, like his mariner, found haven and firm footing at last in the land of the Trinity.”
― Malcolm Guite, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“One aspect of the Enlightenment which had huge implications for modernism was the divorce between reason and imagination and the consequent reduction of knowledge itself to a so-called ‘objective’ realm of quantifiable fact from which all value or meaning had been drained, which in turn led to a reductive, mechanistic and purely material account of the cosmos.”
― Malcolm Guite, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge