Action Quote by William Shakespeare

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

— Francis Bacon

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“ Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of…

— Charles Darwin

“When we zoom freely into the ‘now’ and surrender readily to a liberating emptiness, we can be instantly overwhelmed by creative surging strength and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…

— Charles Darwin

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is…

— Joshua Reynolds

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

— James Agee

Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from…

— William Shakespeare

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an…

— Antonin Artaud

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from…

— Edward Young

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when…

— Charles Churchill