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Dreams Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
- Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- In dreams begins responsibility.
- Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light…
- I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
- In dreams begin responsibilities.
- We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
- but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to…
- As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
- Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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