Nan Fairbrother Quotes

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.