Dreams and Imagination

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

In dreams we all resemble this savage.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

 

Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease.

 

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Because God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

O! then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you …

 

To the island-valley of Avilion;

 

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

“Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,” The shade replied— “If you seek for Eldorado!”

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond?

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

O sweet and far from cliff and scar

 

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you’ve missed. The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.