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title: "1 Remember Dream Quotes By Linda Pastan"
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> [What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names - now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/what-we-want-is-never-simple-we-move-among-the-things-we-thought-we/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

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## More by Linda Pastan

> [I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-regret-the-way-pain-has-taught-me-nothing/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/poetry-is-not-a-code-to-be-broken-but-a-way-of-seeing-with-the-eyes/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [“Despite the enormous evening sky spreading over most of the canvas, its moon no more than a tarnished coin, dull and flat, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/despite-the-enormous-evening-sky-spreading-over-most-of-the-canvas/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/evil-is-simply-a-grammatical-error-a-failure-to-leap-the-precipice/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [What we want is never simple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/what-we-want-is-never-simple/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-am-tired-of-the-litany-of-months-september-october-i-am-tired-of/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [Spring is the shortest season.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/spring-is-the-shortest-season/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-made-a-list-of-things-i-have-to-remember-and-a-list-of-things-i/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [“I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door closes behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-m-only-leaving-you-for-a-handful-of-days-but-it-feels-as-though-i/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first word drifts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/there-are-poems-that-are-never-written-that-simply-move-across-the/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/what-we-want-is-never-simple-we-move-among-the-things-we-thought-we/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-have-dreamed-of-our-bed-as-if-it-were-a-shore-where-we-would-be/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [Grief is a circular staircase.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/grief-is-a-circular-staircase/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [“I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/i-am-learning-to-abandon-the-world-before-it-can-abandon-me-already-i/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

> [Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-pastan/just-looking-at-them-i-grow-greedy-as-if-they-were-freshly-baked/)

[Linda Pastan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-pastan/)

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