William Butler Yeats
Saturday, July 12th, 2008“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”

“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
