Blue sky Quote by Karen Armstrong

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of…

— Walter Pater

“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other…

— Paul Bowles

Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

“I do not mean merely in its adding to enthusiasm that intellectual basis which in its strength, or that more obvious influence about which…

— Oscar Wilde

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I…

— Jules Verne

As our thoughts are governed by that of the earth, our spirit does nothing but suffer, hearts hidden in death and deceit. Our lips…

— Curly Girl

“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word is never…

— Victor Hugo

“Once we understand that the activity in the spirit realm is more real than what we experience in this world, wonders like this will…

— Daniel Duval

“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.”

— Victor Hugo

“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes,…

— Alain de Botton

“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid…

— Bret Easton Ellis