Dreams and Imagination

Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing.

I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.

I do not know whether it was Chou dreaming that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that it was Chou.

Come to me in my dreams, and then

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to stir the souls of men.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream.

A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a graveannouncement to make. Incredible as it mayseem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading armyfrom Mars.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak’d after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart.