Dreaminess Quotes

“A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

“The one who’s lying on his back under the tall trees
is also up there within them. He’s flowing out into thousands of twigs,
swaying to and fro,
sitting in an ejector seat that lets go in slow motion.”
― Tomas Tranströmer

“He always looked dreamy, preoccupied, like he could see things other people couldn't see," the druggist told me twenty-five years later. Well, yes, I thought. That's what immigrants look like. They always have other worlds in their minds.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East