I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
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I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue an...
W.B. YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
ABERJHANI Tread softly and break not my heart.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM Tread softly and break not my heart; my heart which beats solely for you and you alone.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR I know you've always dreamed of going to Europe," he says softly. "I want to make your dreams come t...
E.L. JAMES My daughter would never tread on someone else's freedoms. But we don't want ours tread on, either.
JOHN MCCLAIN Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Step on my roses, but don't tread on my heart.
VATSAL PATEL (VICK) Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
ARNA BONTEMPS I am in your thoughts.
You are in my dreams.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well...
JULIET MARILLIER Luck,” Jeremy scoffed softly. “There’s no luck.”
“Then what?”
“Your feet tak...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under fee...
BIBLE I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dream...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
JONAS SALK Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured d...
HEINRICH HEINE I want YOU to wake up tierd
From running in MY dreams at night
I want YOUR lips to be aching
From ki...
FEMALE IMAGINATION O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
EDMUND SPENSER I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
JONAS SALK I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the
nightmares because of my dreams.
JONAS SALK I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day ...
BIBLE Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!
ROBERT THIER Why do you stagger under the weight of the world, when you were meant to tread on it?
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
JONAS SALK Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS My dreams become reality.
Your dreams become forgotten.
I guess that's why we're different...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I tread on the m che' with my feet and I sometimes use my teeth, and of course my hands are always w...
SHIRAZ PELED Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON I only have nightmares
because my dreams
have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with you...
BIBLE I believe in dreams.
I believe infinite possibilities for the fulfillment of my dreams.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA HIDEAWAY
Preserve that
secret, homey spot
in your heart,
as sanctuary
TARA ESTACAAN A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD I had dreams and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
UNKNOWN The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.
W.B. YEATS I want to do it on my own. I want to fulfill my dreams and help support my son's (dreams).
CYNTHIA MCCOY I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamer...
ROY ORBISON It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
BLANCHE LINCOLN I must confess, that my
heart is like a frozen lake,
only pretends to be firm,
to sh...
AKASH MANDAL You didn't sleep?"
"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like...
JOHN GREEN The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LOUISE BROOKS i want to sleep for my whole life, because in my dreams, you are everywhere around me.
PRASOON DWIVEDI I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
ARTHUR RIMBAUD It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
BLANCHE LINCOLN You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me.
You may even have the ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We want to tread lightly on the planet,
ROD SMITH Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
JOYCE BROTHERS Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
JOHN WOODEN Fro and to in my dreams to you
To the haunting tune of the harp
For the price I paid when ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I love dearly my dreams because they call them impossible.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.
OSCAR WILDE More effort you put towards your true and happy life dreams, the closer you will get to achieve your...
ABDUS SALAM Don't ever give up on your dreams because YOU have the ability to make them come true.
BIANCA FRAZIER And you have created religiions,gods,prayers,rituals,out of your dreams - your gods are as much part...
OSHO Don’t take away my dignity
While patching up my broken dreams
HOLLY DUCARTE Dreams can be your light in the dark and can shelter you from the rain. Dreams can lift you to the h...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
OVID I don't wanna live in dreams, I wanna live my dreams.
EPHDAN I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.
AMIT KALANTRI Your greatness does not lie in the chair you sit upon but on the path you tread and the people who g...
AMIT ABRAHAM In my dreams, I never have an age.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Your true passions will rise you up before the sun, to pick you up where you left off long after the...
CONNIE KERBS Fairy-child, if only you should take my hand, I would show you things beyond your wildest dreams.”...
KRISTEN HUBBARD I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams
SUSAN SONTAG Don’t let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to man...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Accomplishment of your dreams requires personal sacrifice and hardworking.
May the you have a d...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
ELBERT HUBBARD To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even
ELBERT HUBBARD The walking dream;By declaring your dreams before manifestation,you have consciously bequeathed it t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I hadn’t been fighting because of my father’s death. I fought because of his dreams.
BRANDON SANDERSON Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tresses
Paler of hue than the dreams we have lost;
...
MADISON CAWEIN My eyes constantly seek
the rainbow of my dreams
and I sometimes fail
to be grateful...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D.H. LAWRENCE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D. H. LAWRENCE I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems o...
PABLO NERUDA I have dreams, many dreams. Dreams of man doing evil things; hurting women and killing children for ...
ENRIQUE VEGA My kids are my ability to achieve my big dreams, not my disability. For those brief moments, I have ...
JANA KINGSFORD Unselfishly, you left your fathers and your mothers,
You left behind your sisters and your brothe...
ANON. I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving
from the people the sacred trust con...
MARTIN VAN BUREN I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confide...
MARTIN VAN BUREN i have always been the woman of my dreams.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How can we know the dancer from the dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take th...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of
Burke; we are the people of Swift,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. S...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my moth...
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