Coleridge: Clarity and Obscurity

Here's a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (I lifted this from Richard Holmes's superb biography Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804).

The elder Languages fitter for Poetry because they expressed only prominent ideas with clearness, others but darkly...i.e., Feelings created by obscure ideas associate themselves with the one

Holmes mentions that this some of Coleridge's first thoughts on the role of clarity and obscurity as central to the success of poetry. More to come on this....