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.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAs it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge