“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream,
A strange, sad dream, good sooth;
For old as I am, and old as I seem,
My heart is full of youth.”
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
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English writer and poet 1810–1889Related quotes
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