"The moon was out and I saw..." - Quote by Dr Seuss
The moon was out and I saw some sheep.I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,They walked all night from near to far.I would never walk, I would take a car.
More by Dr Seuss
More on Observation
“I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.”
“The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.”
“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”
More on Imagination
“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”
“Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?”
“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”