A Theatre for Dreamers Quotes

“Leonard is saying, ‘Whenever I hear that a guy writes poetry I feel close to him. You know, I understand the folly.”
― Polly Samson, A Theatre for Dreamers

“We were heady with ideals, drunk with hopes of our languorous lope into a future that had learnt from its past.”
― Polly Samson, A Theatre for Dreamers

“The early morning is mine and I’m glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night’s dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.”
― Polly Samson, A Theater for Dreamers

“The others sleep right through the bells and the donkeys and the workmen hammering; if left to them our ice would be a puddle so it’s as well I’m a lark.”
― Polly Samson, A Theater for Dreamers

“Though not boastful, Leonard gives off an unmistakable air of a man who has always been there before you. He possesses that old-soul thing of wisdom more ancient than his body and his face.”
― Polly Samson, A Theatre for Dreamers