Arthur O Shaughnessy Inspirational Quotes (5)

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.