Henry Reed Quotes

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Of course we've all dreamed of reviving the castrati; but it's needed Hilda to take the first practical steps towards making them a reality…She's drawn up a list of well-known singers who she thinks would benefit…It's only a question of getting them to agree.

Henry Reed
We cannot learn to forget as sometimes we learn to remember,
To compose an oblivion like a memory,
To capture carefully an empty future,
As we recapture, fragment by fragment, the past.

Henry Reed
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

Henry Reed
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got.

Henry Reed
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

Henry Reed
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighbour gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.

Henry Reed
And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls Somehow or other I always seemed to put In the wrong place. And as for war, my wars Were global from the start.

Henry Reed
I have known her pass the whole evening without mentioning a single book, or in fact anything unpleasant, at all.

Henry Reed
And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

Henry Reed
As we get older we do not get any younger.
Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five,
And this time last year I was fifty-four,
And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Henry Reed
There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

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There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

Henry Reed
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

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People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Henry Reed
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

Henry Reed