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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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