dreaminess
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The state of being dreamy.
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The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
A veil provides that air of distance, or dreaminess, of perhaps some past grief.
The best poems in the collection punctuate the poet's general dreaminess with stark, comparatively plain insights.