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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journ...
ALAN BREWER Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're n...
KATIE TAYLOR I know words. I have the best words.
DONALD J. TRUMP people are pretty torn on where they stand.
SAMUEL BEST Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to ...
KAILASH KHER I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best ...
MAYA ANGELOU It can be set down in four words: the best of everything. The best hay, oats and water.
JAMES FITZSIMMONS We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence...
CHARLTON LAIRD Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts...
ERIC BRISTOW If you are best your words also become best.
KOWSALAPATHY In order to achieve success & in order to improve, we must face failure and learn from it.Failure is...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
VOLTAIRE One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VOLTAIRE The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferab...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
August 15, 2016
PETRA HERMANS words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
SEAMUS HEANEY You just have to keep coming to work in order to be the best.
CHAD KELLY The best things in life are four letter words. Love, fuck, and free
TOBIAS WADE Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand; spend not your words ...
JOSEPH STORY Men of few words are the best men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawc...
WILLIAM GODWIN You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Learn to say “no” to the good and the advantageous, in order to receive the best.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. ROWLING The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J.K. ROWLING The best prayers have often more groans than words.
JOHN BUCHAN The Best of Martin Taylor.
JAMES TAYLOR Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
EVAN DAUGHERTY A few words of gratitude and encouragement do bring out the best in other people.
FRANCIS GAY Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Of course competitive wages in order to attract the best and the brightest teachers and keep them he...
CHARLES WALTERS Once Your Team Knows You Believe In Them That's When You Get Their Best! Amazing How Powerful The Wo...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.
SHERRILYN KENYON Your Actions are harder than Your Words,So you need more actions and less words in order to excel in...
PAUL E. EHIMEN The best poetry, then, comes in the roughest speech?
C.S. LEWIS The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh. If the teacher ...
APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont...
APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff...
ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr...
APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying.
APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH Once Your Team Knows You Believe In Them That's When You Get Their Best! It's Amazing How Powerful T...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE [Taylor] wanted to go, but it just wasn't in our best interests or his best interests to go. We've g...
JACK DEL RIO In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
JOSE SARAMAGO The best things in life such as love, laughter, sincere friendship, loyalty and compassion, are free...
CHANDRABABU V.S. I'm about being the best.
FRANK OCEAN [While earning acclaim for his role on] Law & Order, ... She's just the best.
JULIA ROBERTS No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their ...
ROBERT CIALDINI Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
JOANNA BAILLIE Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...
JOHN BERGER The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in...
DEYTH BANGER We are pursuing every opportunity to reduce our costs in order to give Delta the best chance to succ...
EDWARD BASTIAN Cathy Cox believes that voters should hear in her own words why she is the best candidate for govern...
PETER JACKSON Right now, we're just trying to strengthen our plans in order to present ourselves as best as possib...
BRAD WHITE Best man describes himself by remarkable actions, not by persuasive words.
BRADLEY B. DALINA Best Astrologer in World | +91-9501666690 http://www.lovespellanil.com/best-astrologer-in-world.html
ANIL AGHORI Mesquite is one of the best defensive teams in the state of Texas. With Gary Taylor, there you have ...
TOM INMAN In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
LINDSEY VONN The best art is measured on its own merit. Words like pragmatism or practicalities don't really feat...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as...
MARTIN AMIS If there was one thing that I took away, it was paying attention to every single solitary detail, no...
AHMED BEST I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
AHMED BEST I dug all the fighting, like the saber fights.
AHMED BEST Not only do I think that has no validity, I think it's really stupid for anyone to put their own pre...
AHMED BEST We're focusing so much on kill, die, and then we're wondering why people go crazy, why people shoot ...
AHMED BEST I've been going out on auditions, but it's hard if you don't have a certain image.
AHMED BEST I wore what was called a motion capture suit, which was like a tight scuba suit with a whole bunch o...
AHMED BEST We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
AHMED BEST It's Star Wars. You can't really get tired of it.
AHMED BEST I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to.
AHMED BEST I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.
GEORGE BEST I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
GEORGE BEST I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, ...
EVE BEST The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to ha...
GEORGE BEST When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ...
PETE BEST I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the came...
EVE BEST

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
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