#poe

What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

#quotes #dreams

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again -- ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#romanticism #dreams

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare? ↗

— Yusef Komunyakaa

#dreams

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#philosophy-of-life #poetry-quotes #life

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan ↗

— T.S. Garp

#dreams #magic #nightmares #poems #dreams

To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dream #dreaming #literature #literature-quotes #love

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dream #dreams #fairy-tale #fairy-tales #literature

Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ↗

— John Green

#poetry #rain #pain

but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#dreams

I didn't know the demons that walked across your memory. They came from the dust when you were at peace in your grave. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#poetry #revelations #the-past #truth #dreams