Quotes About Reality

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

In the line of Emerson and Whitman, Phelps strongly asserts the need for the poet to listen, to feel, to touch, to learn to see. Love is a magician, it is Merlin. It changes the drabness of everyday, unfetters the soul and the imagination, transcends reality. It is an escape from the self... ethereal butterflies alight gently on the very essence of the feeling.

Pardon my sanity... in a world insane...

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.

God is real, unless declared integer.

Such histories as these do, in reality, very much resemble a newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not...

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

Why is Monday so far from Friday, and yet Friday is so near to Monday?

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

All poetry is simply an escape from reality. It says what is palpably not true. The only difference between poets is a difference in the kind of escape they crave. Some are content with visions of a pretty girl who is also a good cook and pays for the marketing out of her own funds; others demand the insane consolations of metaphysics, or the hiding-place of a jargon no one can understand.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

But somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

All promise outruns the performance.

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at.

PLATITUDE. An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.

...human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

I have a very firm grasp on reality — I can reach out and strangle it any time.

Who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?

Theories are great, they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove one in actual life, why the thing blows up.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.