Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMy case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, โ 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge