Light Winged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of read more
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while read more
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the read more
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of read more
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy read more
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
