The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.
Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.
We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.
Success come to those who become success conscious.
We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.
Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.