Generally Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Download Open image “Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generally Gives Pleasure Giving Not perfect Pleasure Pleasure Generally Poetry Poetry Gives Understood
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory. — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
My wife and kids maybe beg to differ, but I am generally a good guy. — Ralph Macchio Copy Share Image
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
