Quotes About Perspective

They said"You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are". The man replied,"things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar".

Gubbinal" That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.

The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar." And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are.

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

Her green mind made the world around her green.

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.

He thought often of the land from which he came, How that whole country was a melon, pink If seen rightly and yet a possible red.

To be at the end of fact is not to be at the beginning of the imagination but it is to be at the end of both.

All history is modern history.

That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The imperfect is our paradise.

I am what is around me.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

part together. This struck me as important. But 2 percent is always alive. From a certain microbiological standpoint, trees are immortal. I think history is like this. We cannot capture much more than the trees do of what is living about history. The rest is solid cortex. It stands and is of use to the living part.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

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

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist." -- Dolores Price

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

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)