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Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Ray Bradbury
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1920 to 2012; Wikidata Q40640, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40640 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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