“the courage to receive time's mightiest dream”
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95 poems (1958)
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“In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.”
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 5
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An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else”
Friend Ed to Joe Saul in Act Three, Scene I: The Sea
Burning Bright (1950)
Address on receiving the Nehru Award (10 January 1977), published in Virginia Woolf Quarterly (1977), Vol. 3, p. 11; also quoted in The Signs of Language Revisited : An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima (2000) edited by Karen Emmorey and Harlan L. Lane, p. 330; the last sentence is Inscribed in metallic lettering at the entrance of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
“All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Source: How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 3 : Imagination Unlimited, p. 63; Unsourced variant: All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
“What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.”
Source: In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day: How To Survive And Thrive When Opportunity Roars