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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."
"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."
"Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power."
"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
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