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Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry

1772–1834 England

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In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

Prose—words in their best order;—poetry—the best words in their best order.

…poetry = the best words in their best order.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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

Biographia Literaria (1817)

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