I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and can remember a great many things, but that is different. We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind that become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first. Very probably the last veil will not be removed, for there are not enough years, but the brightness of the image increases and our conviction increases that the brightness is meaning, or the legend of meaning, and without the image our lives would be nothing except an old piece of film rolled on a spool and thrown into a desk drawer among the unanswered letters. .Robert Penn Warren
About This Quote
In the quote, the author is describing a recurring dream he had in childhood that was not something that could be explained by waking experiences. In this dream, he saw a woman in a long flowing white dress with a light around her neck. He would follow her through a tunnel and when they reached the end of it, he realized she was his mother. This dream remained vivid over time and became something that affected his life. The idea of staying true to our dreams and ambitions is something we often hear, but do we listen? I would like to think we all have our dreams and ambitions and we should try to live our lives with them in mind.
Source: All The Kings Men
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