“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”
Source: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 57.
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 2, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 456)
Context: An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded (1931)
“When I am asleep, I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.”
Durmiendo sueño lo que despierto sueño. Y mi soñar es continuo.
Voces (1943)
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)