Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834
Birthday: October 21
Death: July 25
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
topic: Freedom, Rain, Water Lily, Shrubs, Rain Drop, Sandy