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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

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“Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.”

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)

About the success of the crucial charge he led at Opequon, in a letter to Sardis Birchard (20 December 1864)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“The best book is but the record of the best life.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 44

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist

Source: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Variant: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Context: 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 their best order.

“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 their best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“The best way to regain poetry is to recreate it.”

Xu Yuanchong (1921) Translator of Chinese poetry

Source: 300 Tang Poems: A New Translation (1987), p. xxi

“Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry.”

Gavin Douglas (1474–1522) Scottish Churchman, Scholar, Poet

Douglas Gray, in W. F. Bolton (ed.) The Middle Ages (London: Sphere, 1970), p. 366.
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“What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!”

Charles Dickens book The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 2

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

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