Quote #131307
And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line compresses a Romantic preoccupation with time, imagination, and the continuity of experience: the future is not a distant realm but is already latent within the present. “Tomorrow” is figured as something that “walks” inside “today,” suggesting that consequences, hopes, and anxieties are already moving among current actions and perceptions. Read this way, the quote implies moral and psychological immediacy—what we do now is already shaping what comes next—and it also hints at the mind’s tendency to live ahead of itself, projecting into the future even while inhabiting the present. The phrasing makes time feel organic and embodied rather than abstract.




