17 quotes found
“Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a mult...”
“By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.”
“I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.”
“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic f...”
“I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and can remember a great many things, but that is different. We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I a...”
“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”
“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past t...”
“One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words”
“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”
“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly getting together, but they never really got there. Everyone was terrified of being alone with himself; yet in...”
“When we look back into our lives we see that our life is but a collection, a collage of these moments which take the shape of images, images which lower our spirits, images which inspire, images wh...”
“When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you ...”
“As life goes on, images fade.”
“For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.”
“...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....”