“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge , book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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