Coleridge did write to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797, to describe his feelings related to those expressed in the poem: I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos, & wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know I was going to sleep a million years more ...
Kolridž jeste pisao Džonu Telvolu, četrnaestog oktobra 1797. godine, da opiše svoja osećanja koja su u vezi sa onima opisanim u pesmi: Mnogo bih želeo, kao indijski Višna, da plutam unaokolo po beskonačnom okeanu, upakovan u lotosov cvet, i da se budim jednom u milion godina na nekoliko minuta – samo da bih znao da ću opet da zaspim na još milion godina...