“Carried away.
He got a little carried away.
This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.”

"Silver Horse" on Season of Glass (1981).
Context: I usually stay away from being carried away,
But one day I saw a silver horse.
I thought he might take me to that somewhere high,
I thought he might take me to that deep blue sky. I came to realize that the horse had no wings.
No wings, well, it wasn't so bad, you know. I learnt to travel the world around
And run on the ground in the morning.
And that's the story of a wandering soul,
A story of a dreamer.

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.371

Conversations (January 1801)

On performing, interview by Neil McCormick, March 2003
Music and politics

Source: Confucius: The Analects

"Departure"
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Context: The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.

Works and Days http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=37&amp;Itemid=148 <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Source: Book of a Thousand Days