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  • Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Age Quotes
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Attention Quotes
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes