Dreams and Imagination

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

 

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air, There must be a rare name, somewhere… How do you like “Cloud-Cuckoo-Land”? 3

Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

[ Explaining how to fly :] You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.

 

These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections, the escapades of death, Cinderella fulfilling herself beneath the roof.

I have seen starry archipelagoes! and islands Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager: Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile, A million golden birds, O future Vigor? 9

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes.

I was a child and she was a child,

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Imagination! who can sing thy force?

My steps along this street Resound in another street In which I hear my steps Passing along this street In which Only the mist is real.

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.

I’m going to the Land of Nod.

Un roman est un miroir qui se promène sur une grande route .

But this invites the occult mind,

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

[ Response to being asked, “Where do you live?” :] Second to the right and then straight on till morning.

 

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!