Edgar Allan Poe · “Eleonora”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
| Source | Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora” (1842) |
| Date | 1842 — published in The Gift |
| Wording | Exact |
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About This Line
The narrator of “Eleonora” opens by owning up to “dubious sanity” — and then, from that confession, defends the daydreamer: the people who dream awake, he argues, catch things the merely rational never do. A defense of the imaginative mind, written by a master of it.
Why We Carry This Line
Are you a daydreamer? I am. It was the most positive spin I’d heard on the subject. And that’s why we carry this quote. For all the daydreamers out there.
