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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2005-10-14 06:41 pm

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there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so

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 shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.