Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,
And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
So quick bright things come to confusion.
–Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene i
In the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i
Things growing are not ripe until their season.
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act II, Scene ii
Reason becomes the marshal to my will
And leads me to your eyes, where I o’erlook
Love’s stories written in love’s richest book.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act II, Scene ii
Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act III, Scene ii
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.
–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i
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