Quotes About Clarity

Some things are Dark Some things are dark --- or think they are. But, in comparison to me, All things are light enough to see In any place, at any hour. For I am Nightmare: where I fly, Terror and rain stand in the sky So thick, you could not tell them from That blackness out of which you come. So much for ``where I fly'': but when I strike, and clutch in claw the brain--- Erebus, to such brain, will seem The thin blue dusk of pleasant dream.

Vendado con un pañuelo rojo y tambaleándose en la claridad, el hombre juega a

Karlmenn útskýra sjaldan eigin málefni og ef þeir gera það ferst þeim illa.

No sé qué hacer, ni sé qué pensar, no sé qué sentir. Y sin embargo estoy decidida a seguir sintiendo, pensando y haciendo. No voy a detenerme al costado de mi vida hasta tener las cosas claras. Soy tan obsesiva y tan insegura que se me puede ir la vida decidiendo. No voy a correr ese riesgo.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.

I thought I was wrong once," Seldom said, "but I found out later I was mistaken.

I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith)

I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us. I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us.

One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?

Having essential goals in mind makes daily decisions clearer.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that ain't so. —Will Rogers or Mark Twain or someone else

A picture is worth a thousand words— unless the picture is distorted.

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought. So before you succumb to the temptation to immediately spring to work on the answer, always stop and first ask, "What's the real question here?" Often the question that seems obvious may not be the question that leads to effective action.