Author: Robin Bridges
Cites
- William Shakespeare (2)
- IN: The Form of Things Unknown (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: 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
FROM: A Midsummer's Night Dream, (1600), Play, UK