http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_...rac_%28play%29

uh, sort of a link.... but here is the real quote:

"Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me.
Improvise, Rhapsodize...
I ask for cream and you give me milk and water...
Please gather your dreams together into words."
word.

PS: Just so you don't think I was being false --
Quote Originally Posted by on the bottom of the wiki page
On the PBS show Wishbone, it was the story featured in the episode "Cyranose".