Quotations About / On: DREAM

  • 41.
    this is no dream
    just my oily life
    where the people are alibis
    and the street is unfindable for an
    entire lifetime.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "45 Mercy Street.")
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  • 42.
    One man with a dream, at pleasure,
    Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
    (Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 13-14). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    For life is but a dream whose shapes return,
    Some frequently, some seldom, some by night
    And some by day,
    (James Thomson (1834-1882), Irish poet ("B.V."; "Bysshe Vanolis"). The City of Dreadful Night (l. 1-6). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 44.
    Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
    (Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet, critic. repr. In Conversations, ed. Earl G. Ingersoll (1990). "A Question Of Metamorphosis," no. 41, Malahat Review (1977).)
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  • 45.
    blind wantons like the gulls who scream
    And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.
    (Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Anglo-Irish poet. Among These Turf-Stacks (l. 17-18). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.)
    More quotations from: Louis MacNeice, scream, dream
  • 46.
    Alas! everything is an abyss,—action, dream, desire, speech!
    (Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Flowers of Evil, "The Abyss," (1862).)
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  • 47.
    Only in dream, like this dawn,
    Does the grave, awed intensity
    Of our young love
    Return to my mind, to my flesh.
    (Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. December at Yase (l. 17-20). . . No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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  • 48.
    O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
    To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.
    (Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. The Dream (l. 1-2). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr. 1988) Ecco Press.)
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  • 49.
    I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.
    (Sandy Scholl, U.S. owner of a small cleaning service. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 1, section 2, by Studs Terkel (1988).)
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  • 50.
    Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
    (George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. repr. In Little Essays, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith (1920). "The Elements of Poetry," Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900).)
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