26 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about Poetry
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
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What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?
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Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
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The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.
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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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