“[Wild] with a dream of wildness.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"The Expensive Moment"
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”
August 30, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
As quoted in The New York Times (5 January 1964)
Context: Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
George Linley (1798–1865) British writer
Thou art gone, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.”
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Perhaps confusion of Book VI, Chapter II, 30
Similar to Matthew Prior: "For hope is but the dream of those that wake", Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102.
Misattributed
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Memory
The Monthly Magazine
“It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.”
Sadao Araki (1877–1966) Japanese general
Quoted in "Britons Beaten?" - Time Magazine - October 16, 1933