Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
1834
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "9 May 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.
