Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”
“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”
Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986), p. 281
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.”
Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), in Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 312
Non-Fiction, Letters
Context: I am no less impressed than you by the magnitude, complexity and essential beauty of the cosmos; nor am I less sensible to the veil which separates us from the grasping of ultimate reality. The great difference between us in these matters is that you like to colour your philosophical-scientific speculations with your aesthetic feelings; whilst I feel a great cleavage betwixt emotion and perceptive analysis, and never try to mix the two. Emotionally I stand breathless at the awe and loveliness and mystery of space with its ordered suns and worlds. In that mood I endorse religion, and people the fields and streams and groves with the Grecian deities and local spirits of old—for at heart I am a pantheistic pagan of the old tradition which Christianity has never reached. But when I start thinking I throw off emotion as excess baggage, and settle down to the prosaic and exact task of seeing simply what is, or probably is, and what isn't, or probably isn't. I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.
“In this dream world
We doze
And talk of dreams —
Dream, dream on,
As much as you wish”
As translated in Lust for Enlightenment : Buddhism and Sex (1990) by John Stevens, p. 28
“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”
“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”
written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.”
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), Ch. 12: The Dark Island
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)
