“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Higher Pantheism" (1867)

About Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 – 1892

English poet laureate of Queen Victoria, known for 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

“Imagine what life would be like without imagination!”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“These are times in which a genius would wish to live.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”