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Quotes About Clarity

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear
~ Debasish Mridha
In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
~ Debasish Mridha
The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, "What a lot of things I don't need!
~ Jostein Gaarder
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
~ Idries Shah
The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.
~ Raheel Farooq
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN
~ Kgosietsile Martin Timothy
Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.
~ Debasish Mridha
I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
~ Anne F. Beiler
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
~ John Cage
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
~ Ezra Pound
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
~ W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.
~ I. A. Richards
I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
~ Anna Kamie?ska
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
~ E.B. White
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
~ William Blake
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
~ Aristotle
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
~ Marvin Bell
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
~ Nathalie Sarraute
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
~ William Stafford
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
~ Billy Collins
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
~ George Oppen