Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Attention Quotes

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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