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W.H. Auden (top)
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
- W.H. Auden


Luis Buñuel (top)
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
- Luis Buñuel


John Locke (top)
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.
- John Locke


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (top)
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Anaïs Nin (top)
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
- Anaïs Nin


Antoine Rivarol (top)
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
- Antoine Rivarol


Logan Pearsall Smith (top)
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith


Henry David Thoreau (top)
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.
- Henry David Thoreau


Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut (top)
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut


Steven Wright (top)
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
- Steven Wright