Pandaemonium (film) Quotes

“You have grown such pleasing huge breasts, Sara.”

“You can feed him with ideas and images but I go hungry.”

“We came to create a revolution of the mind, not to canoodle on a hillock.”

“It's not the opium - it's my mind. I spend every day trying not to think.”

“Albatrosses have nothing to do with eel fishing! This is another distraction.”

“Sam, opium is not your worst addiction. Your worst addiction is to Wordsworth.”

“Samuel West as Robert Southey”

“Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth”

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“Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

“John Hannah as William Wordsworth”

“It's only a mite. It's not as though he created a fully grown Doctor of Philosophy or a strapping great plough boy.”

“Samantha Morton as Sara Coleridge”

“Wikisource: Daffodils
William Wordsworth: [to Dorothy ] I wandered lonely as a cow ...
Dorothy Wordsworth: Perhaps "cloud" would be better, William.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: They will always be remembered... when I am dead and all my words are dust.
Sara Coleridge: What is it? What have you written?
Robert Southey: It's a story for the children. Called "The Three Bears".”

“Well, as it happens, I care. Of course, you can't libel the dead. But this is dreadfully unfair to the Wordsworths. William never betrayed Coleridge. Their relationship was vexed, but essentially civilised and creative. Mary was a good friend to Coleridge. It is true that Dorothy was a victim of senile dementia - but it was many years after Coleridge died, and not drug-related. Kubla Khan was published quite normally. The Prelude is one of the two or three greatest poems in the English language. I know all this. Probably you do as well. But will those susceptible viewers, boning up the Romantics for their A levels, know it?”