My Favorite Epigraphs (4)

I'm back with more epigraphs today! It should be no surprise to anyone that I love epigraphs as this is my fourth post of them. I haven't read all of these yet, but I plan to soon.

Epigraphs 1
Epigraphs 2
Epigraphs 3

The Dream Thieves 

"What if you slept

And what if

In your sleep

You dreamed

And what if

In your dream

You went to heaven 

And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower

And what if 

When you awoke

You had the flower in your hand

Ah, what then?"

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rose Under Fire 

To a Young Poet

"Time cannot break the bird's wings from the bird,

Bird and wing together

Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew 

Not the lark, not you,

Can die as others do."

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lair of Dreams

"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."

-Walt Whitman  

Dangerous Girls 

"The truth is never pure and rarely simple."

-Oscar Wilde