All things Quote by Richard Wilbur

Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt.…

— Annie Dillard

“Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection,…

— Eric G. Wilson

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

— Allen Ginsberg

“How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over…

— Geraldine Brooks

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us…

— Mark Nepo

When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest…

— Alberto Villoldo

“Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is…

— Joseph Conrad

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

— Guy Kawasaki

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out…

— John Ruskin

Some things have to be believed in order for them to be seen.

— Anonymous

“I am struck with incredible force by this proof that sight is like a hand that tries to seize flowing water. Yes, our eyes…

— Muriel Barbery