We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. Arthur O'Shaughnessy More Quotes by Arthur O'Shaughnessy More Quotes From Arthur O'Shaughnessy A breath of our inspiration Arthur O'Shaughnessy inspiration kings dream We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems. Arthur O'Shaughnessy music dream life A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation. Arthur O'Shaughnessy breaths generations inspiration We, in the ages lying Arthur O'Shaughnessy dream lying past 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. Arthur O'Shaughnessy light heart men O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow. Arthur O'Shaughnessy ebb-and-flow sweet wind 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. Arthur O'Shaughnessy dream life world For each age is a dream that is dying, Arthur O'Shaughnessy dying dream time