Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
France, An Ode. v
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.”
The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845).
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Source: Selected Poems
Context: p>In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.We all have reasons
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