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“Is this my dream, or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But I grow old among dreams, A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams.”

Poetry Time Dreams Ageing Lost Opportunities

Book:The Wild Swans at Coole

Source: The Wild Swans at Coole

“The last stroke of midnight dies. All day in the one chair From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged In rambling talk with an image of air: Vague memories, nothing but memories.”

Poetry Memories Dreams Words

Book:The Wild Swans at Coole

Source: The Wild Swans at Coole

“Fellow-wanderer, Could we but mix ourselves into a dream, Not in its image on the mirror!”

Reality Poetry Dreams Ireland

Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. 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." (Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”

Book:The Wind Among the Reeds

Source: The Wind Among the Reeds

“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”

Book:The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

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