“These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.” NightSleepMorningFlowerArmsColdHeartbreakWake UpEveningDawnWakingSplendidPitifulSleeping InFrivolityCold Night Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death” IfsDreamNightSleepHalfEternalAwakeWakingEternal LifeWaking LifeHalf Days Book:Life Is A Dream Source: Life Is A Dream
“Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.” MenSoulSelfSometimesReasonDreamPassionMissingHigherMadnessForgottenRoughCopiesWakingReins Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca
