
But no...
When searching it online I found it to be from a poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy...
Ode from his book Music and Moonlight (1874).
& there is more to it than the first two lines.
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,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
To continue along the same lines, I also favour this poem, but can never remember who it is by. It is my thinking that it may be Billy Childish - but I can never find evidence of this.
It wasn't a white rose in winter,
It was a scrunched up tissue caught in a hawthorne bush,
But somehow, It was better than a rose.
I like how it is all about perception.
Some much of what I do in my everyday life is about how people perceive things.
When searching for this I also came across a Monument to the "Weiße Rose" in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Upon further reading found that:
The "Weiße Rose" was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.
The six most recognized members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo and beheaded in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich."
Another member, Hans Conrad Leipelt, who helped distribute Leaflet 6 in Hamburg, was executed on January 29, 1945 for his participation.
Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of death.
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