A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Mini who’s who:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : English Poet
Born: October 21, 1772
Died: July 25, 1834