Quotes About Contemplation

Much poetry happens in the silence of 3 AM.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

I went to the river, dove into the water, and sat at the bottom, but my thoughts followed me.

back off from this poem it is a greedy mirror you are into this poem from the waist down nobody can hear you can they ? this poem has had you up to here.

Ata nuk kishin menduar kurre se ajo mund te qeshte ,dhe sic do gje qe permbys nje mendim te pergjithshem, kjo e qeshur zgjoi tek ata nje fare shqetesimi , gati gati frike

Të shikosh. Sa gjë e pashpjegueshme! Ja, unë drejtoj fytyrën nga lagjet e poshtme të qytetit dhe sytë, si dy pompa të fuqishme, fillonin të thithnin dritë dhe pamje të ndryshme: tymtarë, ndonjë dru fiku të vetmuar, rrugë, kalimtarë. E ndjenin ata që unë po i thithja? Mbyll sytë. Stop. Rrjedha ndalet. I hap sytë. Rrjedha vazhdon.

Bu?enje u zoru! Oduvek je bila navikla da u to vreme rešava sva pitanja za koja ni dan ni no? nisu mogli da na?u rešenja.

Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultuous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun.

Why am I doing this? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else right now? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else in the future?

dark and deep in her eyes. He'd opened his mouth without any idea what he would

A nice settled moment between the business of the day and the puzzle of the evening. It occurs to me these are moments I live for.

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

If he has a last thought, if there is time for a last thought, it will simply be, So this is what a last thought is like.

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.

I ought to return to the cool dark and lock the door and bend the key and stop my ears to the noise of patriotic bloodlust and close my lips and never speak again.

And what is the upshot of this lack of heat, this lack of heart? The upshot is that he is sitting alone on a Sunday afternoon in an upstairs room in a house in the depths of the Berkshire countryside, with crows cawing in the fields and a grey mist hanging overhead, playing chess with himself, growing old, waiting for evening to fall so that he can with a good conscience fry his sausages and bread for supper.

she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

Why? Why not?

Do you like what you see?" he said in a quiet voice

He had to look.

And maybe you should think about slowing down for a few minutes?

Quit asking questions.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.