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• To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Sea

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• 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

  Children, Childhood, Reimagining

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• Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Past

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• All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Poetry, Records

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• 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

  Forever, Energy, Spirit

  William Ellery Channing (1884). “The complete works of W.E. Channing”

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• No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Democracy, Citizens

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.500, Bantam Classics

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• Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Imagination, World, Thanks

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Psychology

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• 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

  Dream, Real, Cobras

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Mom, Country, House

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.

  David E. Cooper

  Writing, Exercise, Indulge In

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Flower, Precious Stones

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• a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

  Madame de Stael

  Perfect, Soul, Pieces

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• A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

  George Santayana

  Education, People, Judgement

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• Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Gay, One Day, Doe

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• There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Taken

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• A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

  Mason Cooley

  Flower, Doe, Evoke

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• A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Men, Numbers

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• I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

  Donna Tartt

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Dream, Air, Mind

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Light, Poet

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.

  R. D. Laing

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Ideas, People

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Land, Borders

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.16

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• 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

  Drawing, Common Sense, Toil

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 187

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