Kubla Khan Quotes

“And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“Then all the charm
Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream