Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry
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“An undevout poet is an impossibility.”
“Prose—words in their best order;—poetry—the best words in their best order.”
“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language”