Dreams and Imagination

More things are wrought by prayer

 

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

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

 

If you wish—

 

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

 

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

 

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.

 

You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.

 

So hopeless is the world without, The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile and hate and doubt And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou and I and Liberty Have undisputed sovereignty.

 

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

 

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro’ the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack’d from side to side. “The curse is come upon me,” cried

 

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

 

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

 

We are laid asleep

I don’t want realism. I want magic!

Imagination! who can sing thy force?

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.

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Democratic nations care but little for whathas been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. . . . Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

We were somewhere around Barstow on theedge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

I’m going to the Land of Nod.

How do you like to go up in a swing,

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

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. . . . An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.