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“People always say to me "What do you think you'd like to be When you grow up?" And I say, "Why, I think I'd like to be the sky Or be a plane or train or mouse Or maybe a haunted house Or something furry, rough and wild... Or maybe I will stay a child.”

Book:Dogs & dragons, trees & dreams: A collection of poems

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Dogs & dragons, trees & dreams: A collection of poems

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Karla Kuskin

Karla Kuskin was an American author renowned for her children's literature. Her works are known for their warm stories and profound emotions, beloved by both children and adults. more

“In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange. They speak unending in languages not my own and walk with companions I have never met, in places my steps have never gone. In my dreams I walk worlds where forests crowd my knees and half the sky is walled ice. Dun herds flow like mud, vast floods tusked and horned surging over the plain, and lo, they are my memories, the migrations of my soul.”

Soul Memories Dreams

Book:Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

“To be not a man, but the projection of another man's dream- what incomparable humiliation, what vertigo!”

Dreams Borges

Book:The Circular Ruins

Source: The Circular Ruins

“Persians aren’t liars. They’re poets, which is worse. Poets don’t even know when they’re lying. They’re just trying to remember their dreams. They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told.”

Stories History Dreams Lies Liars Persians

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue