(1772–1834)
English Romantic poet“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve / And Hope without an object cannot live.”
more infosource: “Work without Hope,” in The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Henry Frowde, 1912), 447–poem composed February 21, 1825.
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medium: Poetry
via: Beverly Bader“I would rather be excused from your banquet of happiness.”
more infosource: The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Oxford University Press, 1917), 153.
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category: depression, happiness
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“Saw the limb of a rainbow footing itself on the sea at a small apparent distance from the shore, a thing of itself—no substrate cloud or even mist visible—but the distance glimmered through it as through a thin semi-transparent hoop.”
more infosource: Anima Poetae: from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: William Heinemann, 1895), 97.
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category: cloud, mist, ocean, rainbow, sea, shore
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“You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.”
more infosource: The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Oxford University Press, 1917), 59.
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category: character, happiness, marriage, partnership
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge