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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 457
AUTHOR: Dana Burnet (1888–1962)
QUOTATION: The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream,
Though Death shall call the whirlwind to his aid,
Enlist men’s passions, trick their hearts with hate,
Still shall the Vision live! Say nevermore
That dreams are fragile things. What else endures
Of all this broken world save only dreams!
ATTRIBUTION: DANA BURNET, “Who Dreams Shall Live,” lines 11–16, Poems, p. 209 (1915).
SUBJECTS: Dreams