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oct 21 Learn More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born


Let's talk about the birds and the bees. Wait! Don't go running out of the room in horror—we mean the actual expression "the birds and the bees." Most scholars attribute it to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was born on this day in 1772. His poem "Work Without Hope" is the first instance of the two species being linked together in the spirit of amore.

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