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Quotes About Wonder

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
~ Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
~ Carl Sandburg
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.
~ Edward Hirsch
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
~ Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
You are only as touched my the magic of this life as you want to be.
~ Mia Hollow
Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /????? ?????? ??? ??????? ??????
~ Ariwara no Narihira
For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself
~ Giselle V. Steele
You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.
~ Virginia Petrucci
Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?
~ Anna Akhmatova, White Flock
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
~ Story Musgrave
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
~ John Ruskin
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
~ John Denver
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
~ Barry Goldwater
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~ Aaron Rose
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.
~ Akiane Kramarik
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
~ Joseph Campbell
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
~ Henri Matisse
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
~ Robert Breault
We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.
~ Mac Anderson
You can either wonder or worry
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Wonder is a beautiful bliss.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita