A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Copy QuoteI only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Copy Quote View & ShareThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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