„Never had I moreExcited, passionate, fantasticalImagination, nor an ear and eyeThat more expected the impossible.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„When a landscape is enveloped in mist it appears larger, more majestic, and increases the power of imagination... The eye and the imagination are on the whole more attracted.“
— Caspar David Friedrich
„The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.“
— Florence Nightingale