..... Poetry is opposed to science, and prose .... Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; 

the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, critic and

 philosopher. Definitions of Poetry, 1811.

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