And I have fitted up some chambers there Looking towards the golden Eastern air, And level with the living winds, which flow Like waves above the living waves below.– I have sent books and music there, and all Those instruments with which high spirits call The future from its cradle, and the past Out of its grave, and make the present last In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it best when he said, “And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.” He’s talking about his house. It s the place where he lived for thirty years and where he wrote his most famous poetry. He says that it’s connected to the living wind (a metaphor for creativity, perhaps). In other words, as Coleridge worked on his poetry, he was also thinking about what life is all about. It’s as if he were taking a journey through life, from one moment to another, from one experience to another.

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