Andrew Motion Quotes

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.