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The lunatic, the lover and the poet
The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, 10 That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth 15 The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
The crazy person, the lover, and the poet Are all full of imagination: The madman sees more devils than hell can hold, The lover, just as wild, Sees Helen's beauty in an Egyptian face: The poet's eye, in wild excitement, Looks from heaven to earth, and back again; As imagination gives shape To unknown things, the poet's pen Turns them into forms and gives to nothing A place and a name.