“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship…” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

In today’s wordsFor most people, experience is like the stern lights of a ship: it only lights up the path already traveled.

Source: From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only…