“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.”
Quote by Shakespeare William Shakespeare
Work
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“Put in your mind Death and here After , Advisable like you put money in your mind.”
“If you have the power of doing Good do it, it never go in vain.”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
Source: Mythologies
“I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.”
Source: Notes to Self
Source: Enough Rope