… May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine … By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone-though erroneous they may be fine- This is the very thing in which consists poetry …" -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to his brother "The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth." -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to a friend
( Dan Simmons )
[ The Fall of Hyperion ]
www.QuoteSweet.com