450: Dreams — are well — but Waking's better
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
“But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
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British writer 1777–1844Related quotes
“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”
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Bad (1987)
“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
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1