Quote#Nature
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.) Anima Poetæ (1895), p. 282.
English (original)
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw
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?
O! I do love thee, meek Simplicity!
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack!
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.