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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville / Novelist
Meditation
Reverie
Water
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
William Ellery Channing / Preacher
Giving
Reverie
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My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.
Fred Armisen / Actor
Reverie
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Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
Gaston Bachelard / Philosopher
Past
Reverie
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Inspirational
Intelligence
Wisdom
Ideas
Intellect
Labor
Pleasure
Reverie
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Sylvia Plath / Poet
Action
Constructive
Indecision
Reverie
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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
Norah Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Paint
Reverie
Way
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke / Philosopher
Dreams
Reflection
Regard
Reverie
Understanding
Float
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard / Philosopher
Mind
Reverie
Soul
Vacuums
Hour
Vacuum
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One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens /
Reflection
Reverie
Silence
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet
Break
Color
Idle
Mind
Reverie
Sea
Seashore
Waves Breaking
Changing
Watch
Sit
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie / Business Magnate
Power
Attitude
Immense
Reverie
Secret
Secret Love
Acquired
Affairs
Assuring
Immense Power
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol / Writer
Children
Extremes
Reverie
Self
Unhappy
Child
Either
Lose
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Charles Simmons / Novelist
Avenues
Evil
Heart
Mind
Reverie
Thousand
Entrance
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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
James Douglas /
Gardening
Dark
Dawn
Garden
Reverie
Shy
Suspended
Good Idea
Haunt
Possess
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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 / Preacher
Forever
Reverie
Youth
Wasted
Ideal
Seek
So Much Energy
Yearnings
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Philosopher
Aim
Contrary
Essays
Projects
Reverie
Writing
Project
Undertake
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In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.
William Godwin / Journalist
Contemplation
Process
Reverie
Similarity
Carried
Hooking
Perpetually
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Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
Emile Galle /
Atmosphere
Creation
Reverie
Volition
Amidst
Arises
Conceived
Influences
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann Hesse / Poet
House
Quiet
Reminders
Reverie
School
Silence
Daily
Disrupted
Duties
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If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
Richard Elman /
Army
Erudition
Forlorn
Graduate School
Reverie
Study
Me Doing School
Draft
Me School Doing
Gave
Graduate
Sunk
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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 / Cartoonist
Dream
Cobras
Hood
Imaginary
Patterns
Real
Reverie
Shapes
Symbols
Fish
Charged
Lizard
Marks
Meaning
Observe
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Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Creative
Creative Process
Crucial
Factories
Indolence
Losing
Nursing
Process
Reverie
Screens
Sitting
Staring
Absolutely
Through
Find
Part
Course
Extended
Word
Poets
Rather
Rows
Sofa
Themselves
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