“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!”
Emily Dickinson
“But this is not my little bed;That time is far away;With strangers now I live instead,From dreary day to day.”
William Allingham
“There's something weird, something phenomenally dreary about Christian singing. The Gospel singers are the only singers that just go crazy, joyous and it's fucking amazing! And it's born out of kidnapping, imprisonment, slavery, murder, all of that - and this joyous singing!”
Eddie Izzard
“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.”
William S. Burroughs
