“The true poet dreams being awake.”
Source: Essays of Elia
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“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
Source: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8
“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”
“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
“My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.”
Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015
“I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
Source: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”
Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
Source: Selected poems
Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts