Zitat des Tages über Träumereien / Reverie:
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.