"...There are as many stories as souls who have existed. The artist who details these triumphs and foils of the human spirit creates profound new understandings with others and fashions the true magic of all the arts."
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." William Shakespeare The Tempest, Act 4, scene 1
Ode
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers
of dreams,
Wandering by lone
sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate
streams;
World-losers and
world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon
gleams:
Yet we are the movers
and shakers
Of the world forever,
it seems.
With wonderful deathless
ditties
We build up the world's
great cities.
And out of a fabulous
story
We fashion an empire's
glory:
One man with a dream,
at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer
a crown;
And three with a new song's
measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of
the earth,
Built Nineveh with
our sighing,
And Babel itself with
our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with
prophesying
To the old of the
new world's worth;
For each age is a dream
that is dying,
Or one that is coming
to birth.
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy
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very interesting...Lynne
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