Impossible Hopes Quotes

“But then he reasoned. 'How often do we see the human mind fall easy prey to a thousand fancies that have no basis in reality. Youthful ardour devoid of all discrimination deceives. A mild interest shown is exaggerated. A diseased eye magnifies a mere speck of dirt into something big. A mere drop of oil falling into the water spreads widely. Like a poet giving free rein to his imagination there is no knowing what fancies an ardent youthful mind would weave around the object of its fascination. The mind of a young man under the influence of Manmatha is like a paintbrush in the hands of an expert painter; there is nothing that it cannot draw. Like a dream, the desires of the young take forms that are not real. Like the feather brush of the magician the young mind creates impossible apparitions of hope.”
― Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Kadambari