Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him." - Gasto...
A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up t...
Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which ...
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Since its sudden birth the city had expanded, swallowing up acre upon acre of the surrounding grasslands and drawing thousands into its domain. Hardly built on the most advantageous ground, miles from the open waters, decades from the mines at the mo...
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sw...
These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull a storm raged, hectic, vicious and vengeful. The depths...
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
