“All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.”

" Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Love.html", st. 1 (1799)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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