How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
As we are, so we see.
Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.