We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Interpretation
Creativity and imagination are essential for shaping the world.
This quote highlights the vital role that artists and dreamers play in the world. It emphasizes that through creativity, innovation, and dreaming, individuals contribute to the fabric of culture and progress, suggesting that the ability to dream and create is central to human experience and societal advancement.
In practice
This quote can be used as part of an inspirational speech at an art exhibition.
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
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