I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams,
With the fine spell of words alone can save
Imagination from the sable charm
And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say,
‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’
Since every man whose soul is not a clod
Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved
And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.
Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse
Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known
When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.

In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me

To be a poet is to be lulled by the wind,
To follow the moon in dreams, and drift with the clouds.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

I'm a poet, and I know it.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ("When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision")

poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ("When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision")

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

I dream I am the chosen Poet,
Who knows all there is to know on Earth,
The one whose inspiration’s pure and perfect,
And captures infinity in a verse! I dream a verse of mine has all the brightness
To light the whole world! And it will please Even those who long and die of sadness!
And even wise, unhappy souls it will appease.