PARABLE -- A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
THE POWER TO DREAM
“(T)he bracing school of poverty . . . [is] the only school of producing the supremely great, the genius” -- Andrew Carnegie
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night . . . For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing” (Fitzgerald 99).
