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.
I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em. I like the feel of it and it's something I respect. It doesn't make any difference whether it's a crappy film or a good film. Anyone who can make a film, I already love. But I feel sorry if they don't put any thought in it because then they missed the boat.
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
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