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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others ...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others ...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can b...

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Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever...

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Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets ...

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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensat...

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform ...

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

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AberjhaniI Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there ...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enou...

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Adolfo Bioy CasaresDiary of the War of the Pig

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public ...

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off be...

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awa...

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Alfred RosenbergThe Myth of the Twentieth Century

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realitie...

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So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think ...

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Age is measured by the dreams not by the years.

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Amit RayEnlightenment Step by Step

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

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Amit RayEnlightenment Step by Step

The role of United Nations is to create more smiling face and to fulfill the dreams of the innocent ...

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An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

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Amy LowellSelected Poems

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ta...

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It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnera...

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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(Fr...

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Dreams are necessary to life.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a...

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...

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She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment...

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Angela CarterNights at the Circus

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occas...

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Angela CarterThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world...

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Anna QuindlenHow Reading Changed My Life

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

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Anna QuindlenHow Reading Changed My Life

I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat...

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Anne BrontëBest Poems of the Brontë Sisters

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

With THC in your system, you don't dream. And you need to. Otherwise it is like losing one of your s...

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Anne LamottImperfect Birds

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming any...

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Anne LamottImperfect Birds

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD ha...

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Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people sa...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

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Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ...

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It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten t...

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You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood...

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Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your duck...

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Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possi...

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

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Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

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Arthur O'ShaughnessyPoems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting...

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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs ...

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Arthur RimbaudComplete Works

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, anni...

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Arthur SymonsThe Symbolist Movement in Literature

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smash...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly ...

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Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can t...

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But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessn...

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We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

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Ben EltonBlast from the Past

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the oppo...

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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.

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Bill WattersonThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. Th...

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Black ElkBlack Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew...

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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

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Bob DylanLyrics:1962 2001

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particular...

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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...

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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that ...

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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Let me advise you, my dear young friend-- nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you...

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Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind di...

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There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality,...

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I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had be...

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Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin...

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Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he f...

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the patte...

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of s...

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And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in ...

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Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what onl...

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wish...

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...

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