Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Literature
Poet Critic English 1772–1834

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