- Rev. Holland: No shoes, funny voices. They must be French.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Anonymous - like Homer, like the hills and clouds themselves!
- Sara Coleridge: So long as Anonymous doesn't collect the fee.
- William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a cow...
- Dorothy Wordsworth: Perhaps "cloud" would be better, William.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: It's only a mite. It's not as though he created a fully grown Doctor of Philosophy or a strapping great ploughboy.
- 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".
- [first lines]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned 'roud walks on and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tred. 'Tis a strange place this limbo, not a place yet named so.