Dreams and Imagination
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round.
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Wallace Stevens
She says, “But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss.” Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.
T. S. Eliot
Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Emil Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
Lord Byron
But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly, like a snake.
Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
