The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from th…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ; and Two Lay Sermons; I. The Statesman's Manual, II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters, p.144
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