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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 Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."
"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."
"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
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