Quotes About Introspection

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

I hate January, it's the Monday of months.

When a traveler asked Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she answered, "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."

To live alone, one must be a beast or a god — says Aristotle — leaving out the third case: that one must be both — a philosopher.

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

There is something self-defeating in the too conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs which they have smothered and forgotten.

A poet is a reporter, interviewing his own heart.

A poet is inmate, and warden, to his own mind.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

The poet pursues the trouble in your heart as pitilessly as he has ferreted out his own.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

...prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts.

The man who gets on his knees has not learned the right use of his legs.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

...psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution.

I need one of those baby monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.