In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.” — Joshua Kryah Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Ever had a dream of flying? Being something more? For me, it is an endless objective. A welcomed reverie.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.” — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“XXIV Morning Reverie Water mixed with a little salt Warmed by an erratic heart A sad sigh from a heavy breast And… — Michael Bee Copy Share Image
“Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Admiring yourself?” The Inquisitor’s voice but through his reverie. “You wont look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you.” “You… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges our world as dreamers. In itself the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“The next day was, for Emma, a dismal one. Everything seemed enveloped in a black atmosphere that hovered indistinctly over the exterior… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul. —GASTON… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
