“From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.”
William Cowper
“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.”
Anais Nin
“Am I faithful, am I strong, am I good enough to belong? In your reverie of a perfect girl?”
Sarah McLachlan
“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.”
James Douglas
“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
John Locke
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow