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Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.