“Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn”

450: Dreams — are well — but Waking's better
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Dreams — are well — but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn — If One wake at Midnight — better — Dreaming — of the …" by Emily Dickinson?
Emily Dickinson photo
Emily Dickinson 187
American poet 1830–1886

Related quotes

Kate Chopin photo
Muhammad Ali photo

“If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Daniel Barenboim photo
René Magritte photo
Richelle Mead photo
John Keats photo

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”

Stanza 8
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Alexander Pope photo

“They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 103.

Josh Homme photo

“If life but a dream, then
WAKE ME!”

Josh Homme (1973) American musician

"Keep Your Eyes Peeled", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age

Matthew Prior photo

“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”

Matthew Prior (1664–1721) British diplomat, poet

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Aristotle photo

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Source: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 187

Related topics