“and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming…”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Source: Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound
“and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming…”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Speaking of the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Context: I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.
“"Stars in the sky / and dreams are few / the ones who come true"
(from Ridere di te, 1987)”
Vasco Rossi (1980) Italian singer-songwriter
Song lyrics
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Source: The Cost of Living