Alive Quote by Stan Brakhage

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,…

— Philip Larkin

“So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts to render…

— Bia Lowe

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from…

— Robert Silverberg

Every action preformed in the world first begins in the imagination.

— Mathew Gubbler/ Criminal Minds

“Matter would have the universe a uniform dispersion, motionless, complete. Spirit would have an earth, a heaven and a hell, whirl and conflict, an…

— Allen Wheelis

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope…

— Kate DiCamillo

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

— Ann Voskamp

“The wonder of an object is that it is not a thought. A thing is first and foremost itself. An inconsequential pebble picked up…

— John O'Donohue

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from…

— Kate Chopin

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world,…

— Aldous Huxley

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there…

— Milan Kundera