Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be goo…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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. ✨ 'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830
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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. ✨ 'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830

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