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Poetry
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
- By William Cowper , on Poetry
Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.
- By Samuel Taylor Coleridge , on Poetry
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
- By Samuel Taylor Coleridge , on Poetry
For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
- By Thomas Carlyle , on Poetry
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
- By Thomas Carlyle , on Poetry
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
- By Lord Byron , on Poetry
For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
- By Lord Byron , on Poetry
Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.
- By Samuel Butler , on Poetry
For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
- By Samuel Butler , on Poetry
You speak As one who fed on poetry.
- By Edward George Earle , on Poetry
