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Quotes About Dreams

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
~ William Butler Yeats
Everything that man esteemsEndures a moment or a day.Love's pleasure drives his love away,The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
In dreams begins responsibility.
~ William Butler Yeats
O but we dreamed to mendWhatever mischief seemedTo afflict mankind, but nowThat winds of winter blowLearn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
~ William Butler Yeats
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
~ William Butler Yeats
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
~ William Butler Yeats
Lui qui aurait voulu pouvoir offrir le ciel Si je pouvais t'offrir le bleu secret du ciel Brodé de lumière d'or et de reflets d'argents Le mystérieux secret, le secret éternel De la nuit et du jour, de la vie et du temps Avec tout mon amour je le mettrais à tes pieds Mais tu sais je suis pauvre et je n'ai que mes rêves Alors c'est de mes rêves qu'il faut te contenter Marche doucement, car tu marches sur mes rêves
~ William Butler Yeats
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet ; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
Se avessi il drappo ricamato del cielo, Intessuto dell'oro e dell'argento e della luce, I drappi dai colori chiari e scuri del giorno e della notte Dai mezzi colori dell'alba e del tramonto, Stenderei quei drappi sotto i tuoi piedi: Invece, essendo povero, ho soltanto sogni; E i miei sogni ho steso sotto i tuoi piedi; Cammina leggera, perché cammini sui miei sogni.
~ William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
In dreams begin responsibilities.
~ William Butler Yeats
I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
Everything I've never done, I want to do with you.
~ William Chapman
So Fancy dreams - Disprove it, if ye can, Ye reas'ners broad awake, whose busy search Of argument, employ'd too oft amiss, Sifts half the pleasures of short life away.
~ William Cowper
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
~ William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
~ William Faulkner
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~ William Faulkner
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~ William Faulkner
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
~ William Feather
Sing, Susu, through your severed head, through your severed arteries; and I shall put my mouth to your lips as though you were such an instrument. My breath shall reinflate your brain. Susu, O bag of pipes, I approach you in my dreams.
~ William H. Gass
His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that.
~ William H. Gass
I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
~ William H. Macy
It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in the desert of life, to which we are always hastening forward: we eye them wistfully in the distance, and care not what perils or suffering we endure, so that we arrive at them at last.
~ William Hazlitt