Quote#Death
Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825).
English (original)
Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portrait of Yesterday.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
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