Famous quotes containing the words coleridge and/or wrote:
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)