Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving. — Gaston Bachelard 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Life is reverie and dream, calm day, breaking sea and so, skerry and strong stream, storm, fog, and powdery snow. Blossom and… — Bergsveinn Birgisson Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“...and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 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
“Caging the compass, he rotated it towards himself, without realising it sank into a momentary reverie in which his entire consciousness became… — J.G. Ballard 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
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper 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
“They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover: When comes the season of decay, they both decide Upon sweet, husky cats to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
