
"Dreams"; first released as a single (29 September 1992)
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
"Dreams"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
"Dreams"; first released as a single (29 September 1992)
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
“The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”
Widely attributed to Edward Young, but in fact written by E. B. White in Harper's Magazine (December 1940), and reprinted in his One Man's Meat (1942).
Misattributed
"Loyalty Song"
Lyrics and poetry
A review of The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Harpers Magazine (December 1940)
One Man's Meat (1942)
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”
#197
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Where are you this moment?
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.”
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)