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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Paris France, pt. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons (1940).)
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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845), U.S. poet, critic, short-story writer. A Dream within a Dream (1849).)
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Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Hyperion (l. 73-75). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Darkness (l. 1). . .
The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. A Dream within a Dream (l. 12-13). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision
Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.
(Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. Alice, Through the Looking-Glass, ch. XII, Macmillan (1872).)
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... climbing the primordial climb,
a dream within a dream,
then sitting here
holding a basket of fire.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Witch's Life.")
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If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. "Happy Talk," South Pacific, Williamson Music Inc. (1949).
Music composed by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979).)
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Beauty is the outside of a dream.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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