Who wrote this famous saying? I have been searching for days!?

Question

Not sure if this is a saying or an actual poem, but I'm wondering who authored this, and where it came from originally. I presume that it was a part of some published work, not just a saying that was passed down over time. Can you help me? Thank you! Here it is:

At last the ladder,
which had been built
slowly, slowly,
one hope at a time,
reached up
to the clouds.
And the dreamer
began to climb.

Answer 1

Found several references of this on the web. One of them showed it being quoted in a professional training material, but it was not attributed to an author there. This tells me the author is truly unknown otherwise they would have to have been credited.

Answer 2

I'm sorry bro the great man who wrote that quote was unknown he never gave a name he just submitted it go to google and type in Fun and Random Quotes and his quote will be at the bottom

Answer 3

I have a feeling it is just one of those things written on greeting cards by people whose names are listed but we really don't know. It seems to show up online as a greeting card saying. You know - those women who always seem to have three names - Carol Baker Smithfield or something like that? You see them a lot in card shops on plaques and stuff. I have always wondered who they were.

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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.

Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.

Pax - C

Answer 4

I don't recognize it specifically, but it sounds like something Arthur C. Clark would write.