My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Word-work is sublime. . . because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.