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Quotes About Wonder

What we haven't imagined will one day spit us out magnificent and simple. -Fury of Rain
~ Joy Harjo
What we haven't imagined will one day spit us out magnificent and simple.
~ Joy Harjo
On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
They were astronomers plotting the trajectories of stars.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Our lives are Möbius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring. In
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A mí me resultaba fascinante oír a mi hermano mayor hablando a nuestro padre como un niño, como yo, que tenía diez años. Se me ocurrió una cosa: «¿Nunca nos hacemos mayores?». Por alguna extraña razón, eso me consolaba.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Ella es muy bonita, ¿verdad? ¿Bonita? ¡Es la criatura más hermosa con que yo haya tropezado en mi vida! Eso decía mi corazón.
~ Juan Rulfo
Hasta que al fin logré torcer la cabeza y ver hacia allá, donde la estrella de la tarde se había juntado con la luna.
~ Juan Rulfo
Aren't our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky?
~ Jude Watson
gravel-maggot?
~ Jude Watson
I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.
~ Judith McNaught
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
~ Judy Blume
Winters in Michigan are a lot like John Holmes's penis: awe-inspiring but way too long, leaving you to wonder—after the
~ Wade Rouse
When she tipped her head and looked upward at the glowing dark blue dome pricked with its millions of lights, bigger and brighter than stars had ever been, she felt the mountains breathe in her face their ancient, frightening cold.
~ Wallace Stegner
There is something ominous about a swift river, and something thrilling about a river of any kind. The nearest upstream bend is a gate out of mystery, the nearest downstream bend a door to further mystery.
~ Wallace Stegner
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
~ Wallace Stevens
The book of moonlight is not written yet.
~ Wallace Stevens
Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
~ Wallace Stevens
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
~ Wallace Stevens
A poem is a meteor.
~ Wallace Stevens
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.
~ Wallace Stevens
It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star.
~ Wallace Stevens
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
~ Wallace Stevens