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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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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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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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

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