Quotes About Reflection

Thought tends to collect in pools.

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be told. It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know. It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound

The salt hung on his spirit like a frost, The dead brine melted in him like a dew Of winter, until nothing of himself Remained, except some starker, barer self In a starker, barer world, in which the sun Was not the sun because it never shone With bland complaisance...

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

Who, then, are they, seated here? Is the table a mirror in which they sit and look? Are they men eating reflections of themselves?

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead.

Not less because in purple I descended The western day, through what you called The loneliest air, not less was I myself

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

The greatest griefs are silent.

that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.

According to the Buddha, there are four ways of treating questions: (1) Some should be answered directly; (2) others should be answered by way of analysing them; (3) yet others should be answered by counter-questions; (4) and lastly, there are questions which should be put aside.