“Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Life quote

Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote card
Poet and critic · 1772 – 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet and critic, a founder of the Romantic movement alongside William Wordsworth. His poems include 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', and his Biographia Literaria is a landmark of literary criticism.

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