Date: October 4, 1802
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1810, 1820
"Though slow to entertain thoughts of love, as soon as he perceives the partiality of his ward, it enters his breast like a torrent when the flood-gates are opened."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)