Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
12 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression. … by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking. … There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
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