
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1834]
Love [1799]. Stanza 1.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company in 1955.
Page 423.
To read the full poem at English Verse: Love.