People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.
Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
Where is the Life we lost in living?
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
At the still point, there the dance is.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?
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