Quotes About Clarity

I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

Lack of clarity is a writer's truth.

That is the problem with modern ink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. You push and you ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is in my heart that matches my mind? I

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?

She didn't even pause to think. She simply said in a way that made it clear there was no more to the story: Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I remember the day when I finally knew a genuine thought and could follow where it went.

Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I'm disillusioned and don't want to struggle to make things clear.

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...

You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I will put down all the interpretations of what is said to you, the right interpretation, that is: the one that is not meant to injure, not meant to humiliate or accuse or doubt. And whenever something is said to you, you will look in my little dictionary to make sure, before you get desperate, that you have understood what is said to you.

Now that I have been truthful I am no longer anxious. Anaïs

They who walk in the light do not see those in the shadow.

I have come to the conclusion that the use and knowledge of words acts sometimes as a stumbling block rather than a clarifier.

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

I never saw as clearly as with Artaud what the meaning of poetry is: it is an abstraction, to match allegorical patterns.

me he enfrentado a mis sentimientos. Soy plenamente concientes de ellos.Prro aún no he encontrado a nadie con quién quisiera vivirlos hasta el final. Por otra parte no estoy segura de que es lo que quiero vivir hasta el final.

I am in a fever of ruthless honesty. Anaïs

Incidentally, this is one of the worst defects in all the journal writing—this tacking on of recently digested syntheses. No syntheses, please! And in the finished work, no slippery escapes, no short, pithy, ambiguous lines or sentences. Full out, or else nothing.

Comienzo a ver las cosas con mayor claridad. Ahora sé por qué el primer día no me fiaba de él. Sus acciones se hallan desprovistas de sentimiento y de imaginación. Motivadas por meros hábitos de vida, de aprehensión y de análisis. Es un saltamontes. Ahora ha saltado a mi vida. Mi sensación de repugnancia se intensifica.

Mon but n'est pas de penser neuf mais de penser juste.