
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
The quote "He hath awakened from the dream of life— 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With…" is famous quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet.
St. XXXIX
Adonais (1821)
Context: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep—
He hath awakened from the dream of life—
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings.
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
History of Madness (1961)
“…from the madding crowd’s ignobale strife.”
He moved on a plane of his own far removed, quoted in page=489
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 83