Edgar Allan Poe on Dreams

Joel Osteen on Dreams

Marsha Norman on Life

Paul Laurence Dunbar on Dreams

As school has begun in the District of Calamity, and the new $122 million building for the Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School officially opens, it seems apropos to recite the dreamy lyric's of the school's namesake.

What dreams we have and how they flyLike rosy clouds across the sky;Of wealth, of fame, of sure success,Of love that comes to cheer and bless;And how they wither, how they fade,The waning wealth, the jilting jade--The fame that for a moment gleams,Then flies forever,--dream, ah ---dreams!

{from Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar  (1913)}

C.S. Lewis on Dreams

So at last dreams come to pass and I have sat in the sanctum of a publisher discussing my own book (Notice the hideous vulgarity of success already growing in me). Yet—though it is very pleasant—you will understand me when I say that it has not the utter romance which the promise of it had a year ago. Once a dream has become a fact I suppose it loses something. This isn’t affectation: we long and long for a thing and when it comes it turns out to be just a pleasant incident, very much like others.   ~ C.S. Lewis