“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream." by William Cowper?
William Cowper photo
William Cowper 174
(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

Related quotes

Jean Genet photo
Dejan Stojanovic photo

“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Muse II http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muse-ii/
From the poems written in English

Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Langston Hughes photo

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)

Alexandre Dumas photo

“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Glen Cook photo

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)

Langston Hughes photo

Related topics