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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. -- Charles Simmons
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. -- William Ellery Channing
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries. -- Richard Elman
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. -- Jim Woodring
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving. -- Gaston Bachelard
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. -- Luis Bunuel
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious -- Emily Dickinson
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. -- Gaston Bachelard
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. -- Mason Cooley
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. -- William Cowper
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose. -- William Butler Yeats
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child. -- Gaston Bachelard
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal -- William Ellery Channing
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries. -- Andres Segovia
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. -- Washington Irving
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances. -- Alphonse Karr

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