Quotes About Contemplation

To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.

In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.

Whoever has seen the universe, whoever has beheld the fiery designs of the universe, cannot think in terms of one man, of that man's trivial fortunes or misfortunes, though he be that very man. That man has been he and now matters no more to him. What is the life of that other to him, the nation of that other to him, if he, now, is no one? This is why I do not pronounce the formula, why, lying here in the darkness, I let the days obliterate me.

Little has happened to me in my lifetime, but I have read much.

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Vivimos descubriendo y olvidando esa dulce costumbre de la noche. Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última. (Our life is spent discovering and forgetting that gentle habit of the night. Take a good look. It could be the last.)

Hasta la hora del ocaso amarillo Cuántas veces habré mirado Al poderoso tigre de Bengala

Não fale, a menos que você possa aprimorar o silêncio.

Secili percaktohet pergjithnje ne nje cast te percaktuar te jetes dhe ky eshte casti kur ai gjendet perballe vetvetes.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless.

Yaln?zl?k mükemmel, hatta biraz sald?rgand? ve Dahlmann yaln?zca güneye deÄŸil geçmiÅŸe yol ald???n? düÅŸünebilirdi.

Leer, por lo pronto, es una actividad posterior a la de escribir: más resignada, más civil, más intelectual

Dresser des listes est l'une des plus anciennes activités du poète.

Nu conteaza sa citesti, ci sa recitesti.

The really human thing is to see the stars above the roof, to preserve our apprehension of the universality of things in the midst of the habits of daily life, and to see the world above and beyond our immediate environment.