“Never till this day
Did life disturb the dense eternity
Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song,
Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry,
Made vital the gross fog. The very light
Is but an alien that can find no welcome”
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
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Hartley Coleridge 35
British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796–1849Related quotes
"Daily Trials" in Companion Poets (1871).
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Source: Heartbreak House
"Per Pacem ad Lucem".
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)
“The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
Out of the transient encounter of contrary forces which constitute your existence, strive to create whatever immortal thing a mortal may create in this world — a Cry.
And this Cry, abandoning to the earth the body which gave it birth, proceeds and labors eternally.
