Stanza 5.
The Raven (1844)
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XXXV (p. 183)
Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 44
“And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.”
"Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Judy Garland version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU
Context: Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“I dared not dream she loved me.”
IV, p. 29.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Context: I dared not dream she loved me. Nay,
Her love was proud; and pride is loth
To look with favor, own it fond
Of one the world loves not to-day …
No matter if she loved or no,
God knows I loved enough for both,
And knew her as you shall not know
Till you have known sweet death, and you
Have cross'd the dark; gone over to
The great majority beyond.
