Quote#God & Faith
And what if all of animated nature
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Eolian Harp", st. 3 (wr. 1795; pub. 1796).
English (original)
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversly fram'd, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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