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 believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.
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