“Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5
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"Free Hope" p. 127.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
On the Coda of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, page 187 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA187.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Schumann and Mendelssohn (Ch. XIII)
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Context: We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Where Is Your Heart?
Lyrics, Breakaway (2004)
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 2 “A New Mann” (p. 99).
