Romantics Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.” quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Download Open image

““I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.””

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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