Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output. Meia Geddes
About This Quote

The author of the quote, William Butler Yeats, was a famous Irish poet and playwright. His poem The Second Coming describes the world after the second coming of Christ and his second coming to earth. He uses the word “dream” several times in this poem, so it's likely that he was talking about writing dreams in this quote. However, he wasn't talking about dreams in the sense that we usually think of them today.

He doesn't mean that we can write our own dream and then go to sleep and wake up in one that we created. Instead, he's talking about writing down your dream and then letting it sit around in your mind for a while before you go to sleep. He means that you are going to put what you are thinking on paper before you give into your dreams until they become nightmares or desires or fantasies or whatever else you are thinking about when you are asleep.

Source: The Little Queen

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