Quotes About Experience

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.

The moon and sun are travelers of a hundred generations. The years, coming and going, are wanderers too. Spending a lifetime adrift on boat decks, greeting old age while holding a horse by the mouth—for such a person, each day is a journey, and the journey itself becomes home.

It doesn't matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened.

In the poems of . . . Robinson Jeffers, it is a style of consciousness rather than of language we see most in an altered light, some shadowed corner of experience newly illumined and made perceptible by words.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R. P. Blackmur said.

Words are not the highest reality, nor' what is expressed in words the highest reality. Why? Because the highest reality is an experience which cannot be entered into by means of statements' regarding it. Poetry and visual symbols come much closer to reality. The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.

True compassion is the result of experiencing sunyata. 'Sunya' means empty; and 'ta' means 'ness'. The doctrine of emptiness is the essential teaching of Mahayana. It is the ultimate truth of non-ego.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

None of us were perfect, and life made us infinitely less so. Tears

The lamb melted on my tongue, and when I swallowed, it left little fireworks in its wake, a burst of citrus and chili and garlic and what seemed a dozen more subtle tastes as well.

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

Neuroplasticity is now thought to include emotional/motivational as well as cognitive circuits. This would mean that a child's habits of motivation and attitudes toward learning don't all come with the package, but are physically formed in the brain by experience.

Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.

first, the repeated experience of the trauma itself; second, the effects of the trauma on personality development; and third, the need to re-experience the feelings and/or memories of the original trauma in order to integrate it and work it through.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers ' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

When a novel has 200 000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200 000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.