Quotation by

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Dreams

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The speaker is asking others to be careful and gentle in their actions because those actions affect something deeply personal and fragile to them. This suggests that their hopes and aspirations are vulnerable and should be treated with respect.

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I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

I'll see you in my dreams.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Don't be afraid of your dreams.