Dejection An Ode Quotes & Sayings

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode. — James Fenton

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. — Henry David Thoreau

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge