POETRY IS LIKE TAKING A DEEP BREATH

Friday 22 October 2010

BE NOT AFEARD: THIS ISLE IS FULL OF NOISES





Be not afeard: this isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked
I cried to dream again.


Shakespeare



From The Tempest
Act 3 Scene 2