Status Updates From Biographia Literaria: Biogr...

The talent that is required in order to make excellent verses is perhaps greater than the philosopher is ready to admit, or would find it in his power to acquire; the talent to seek only the apt expression of the thought, and yet to find at the same time with it the rhyme and the metre. […] It is certain that poetry when it has attained this excellence makes a far greater impression than prose -Christian Carve 1779

zdf