“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”

— John Dryden, All for Love (1678), Act IV, sc. i

About John Dryden

1631 – 1700

English poet and playwright, the first Poet Laureate of England.

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”

“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

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

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”

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

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”