“To-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.”
I Love all Beauteous Things, st. 2.
Poetry
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Robert Seymour Bridges 43
British writer 1844–1930Related quotes

“Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.”
Perhaps confusion of Book VI, Chapter II, 30
Similar to Matthew Prior: "For hope is but the dream of those that wake", Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102.
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450: Dreams — are well — but Waking's better
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”

"Goodbye My Lover", written by James Blunt and Sacha Skarbek
Song lyrics, Back to Bedlam (2004)