Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Writing
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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.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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