All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~ T. E. Lawrence
And those men (and women) that write down their dreams for others to read pass those dreams and ideas around, and it’s so very hard to kill an idea once it’s in the wild.
I’ve always loved that one.
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men
Mostly to ourselves. When I’m too deep into my fantasy world, I’ve been known to walk into walls.
Worst is when I bang my forehead into a door edge-on.