
“Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers”
"Goodbye My Lover", written by James Blunt and Sacha Skarbek
Song lyrics, Back to Bedlam (2004)
Introductory Chapter. Variant: This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
"Free Hope" p. 127.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
“We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.”
“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
Variant: Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
After this he was invited to play the Shehnai solo on the All India Radio
Quote, Encyclopedia of Bharat Ratnas