“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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