“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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William Wordsworth 306
English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
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.
“Fine Writing,” p. 308
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
Theodore and Honoria, line 227.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Everything one has forgotten cries for help in the dream.”
Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
Die Provinz des Menschen : Aufzeichnungen 1942–1972, München 1973, p. 269
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
Hercule Poirot
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)