The full moon glided behind a black cloud / and what then? / and who cared? -

To analyse the pleasures received from Gates, in corners of Fields, at twilight /

Insects by their smallness, the Mammoth by its hugeness, terrible.

- ibid., 1803

better to do nothing
than nothings

Dec. 6 1803. - Adam travelling in his old age - came to a set of the descendants of Cain, ignorant of the origin of the world; & treating him as a Madman killed him. A sort of Dream, which I had this Night.

- ibid.

He knew not what to do - Something, he felt, must be done - he rose, drew his writing-desk suddenly before him - sate down, took the pen - & found that he knew not what to do.

one of those thoughtful men whose plate of pudding often swims before their eyes while they are eating

Mind, shipwrecked by storms of doubt, now mastless, rudderless, shattered, - pulling in the dead swell of a dark and windless Sea.

He is always doing
something else

- ibid, 1800

You would smile to see my eye rolling up to the ceiling in a Lyric fury, and on my knee a Diaper pinned, to warm

- ibid, 1797

Very fond of Vegetables, particularly Bacon & Peas. Bacon & Broad Beans. -

In a distempered dream things & forms in themselves common & harmless inflict a terror of anguish.-

Doing nothing ends in being nothing.-

- ibid, 1794-7

We all look up to the blue Sky for comfort, but nothing appears there - nothing comforts nothing answers us - & so we die -

- Coleridge, Notebooks 1815