"With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression."

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Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.284

Hartley Coleridge

#Sight Quotes #Smell Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.”
“Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.”
“I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.”
“I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like itâ€¦”
“Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”
“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
“Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.”
“A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.”

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