A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. . . . Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.