Quote by Peter Matthiessen Download Open image ““You truly see by not trying to see.”” — Peter Matthiessen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Just because you refuse to see something doesn't mean it isn't real” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
“You only see what you want to see and thats the only thing you will see.” — William Hoo Copy Share Image
“If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.” — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
“Never be fooled by what you see. It's what you do not see that will kill you.” — Ash Krafton Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“...experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture. Captive to… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” “I was there!”-surely that is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
