January 30, 2010

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  And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,distance has not diminished love, that we are to each other even as we parted; to feel again the fond kiss, to hear once more the accents of a voice which to us has been for years so still,–a voice that brings with it the gush of memory! Past days flit before us; feelings, thoughts, hopes, we deemed were dead, all rise again, summoned by that secret witchery, the well-remembered though long silent voice. Let years, long, lingering, saddening years drag on their chain, let youth have given place to manhood, manhood to age, still will it be the same–the voice we once have loved, and deemed to us for ever still–oh, time, and grief, and blighted hope will be forgotten, and youth, in its undimmed and joyous beauty, its glow of generous feelings, its bright anticipations, all, all again be ours.

  Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

   

  
  
  

               I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.

    -Chinese Proverb

              If you want your dreams to come true, don’t over sleep.

    -Yiddish Proverb

              If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming…

  -Japanese Proverb, from Lilies Words and Music: Annie Walker, October, 1999

              When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.

    -Anon.

              He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

    -Douglas Adams

              Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

    -Amos Bronson Alcott

              He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

    -Fred A. Allen

              The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

    -James Allen,

              Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

    -James Allen

              The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.

    -James Allen

              What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

    -Woody Allen

              I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success — the earliest spark in the dreaming youth — if this; dream a great dream.

    -John A. Appleman

              O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

    

  -Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, Preface to a Modern Mythology, 1926

              Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

    -Matthew Arnold

              When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.

    -Isaac Asimov

              A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

    -W. H. Auden

              Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

    -Gaston Bachelard

              Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

    -Djuna Barnes

              Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

    -St. Basil

              For in the end it is Middle-Earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien’s considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day’s madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

    -Peter S. Beagle, from the Foreword to The Fellowship of the Ring

              If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

    -Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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