“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
Jean Genet (1910–1986) French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.
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“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”
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“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
Glen Cook book Water Sleeps
Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)