Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Unusual and new coined words are doubtless an evil; but vagueness, confusion, and imperfect conveyance of our thoughts, are a far greater.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, Biographia Literaria, 1817
Posted on June 28, 1999 at 9:39 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
Posted on November 5, 2002 at 10:23 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
In poetry, in which every line, every phrase, may pass the ordeal of deliberation and deliberate choice, it is possible, and barely possible, to attain that ultimatum which I have ventured to propose as the infallible test of a blameless style; namely: its untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
Posted on May 2, 2001 at 9:21 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;— poetry = the best words in the best order.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
Posted on April 8, 2002 at 10:59 PM
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