Quotes About Discovery

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

It is wonderful Becoming.

Hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.

For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match,

maybe we were the diggers of literature

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,

Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination. p. 919

From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise All you need, To find poetry, Is to look for it with a lantern.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion become calm and incapable of producing any more karma-formations, because there is no more illusion, no more 'thirst' for continuity. It is like mental disease which is cured when he cause or the secret of the malady is discovered and seen by the patients.