Quote#Nature
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee
Quote byMary Elizabeth Coleridge · 1861–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Self-Question, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee, Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art? Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee, Thou little heart?
— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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