"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

“The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”

“How slowThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.”

“The poet's eye, in a 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 shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.”

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?”

“I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.”

“What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.”

“In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.”

“Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.”