Quotes About Insight

Always Follow your heart.....but take your brains with you

I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man.

The point here is that there is as much disinformation and as little insight concerning the nature of killing coming from the media as from any other aspect of our society.

Battles are often won before they are fought.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The first is that I firmly believe that much of the quality we call intelligence is quantitative: he who finds the correct solution to a problem has simply tried out more things that he who does not.

I find that as soon as I put words and ideas onto paper in my notebook, or type them into my computer, they begin to gather to themselves more images, more words and ideas. As I write I have the sensation of being at the center of a small vortex of enlarging connections, as in the poem above, and my pen or my fingers on the keyboard move faster and faster to keep pace with them.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.

Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another--one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly--he said "Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it?

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

Yo he aprendido más de mi tierra yendo a los indios ranqueles, que en diez años de despestañarme, leyendo opúsculos, folletos, gacetillas, revistas y libros especiales.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

No man ever became wise by chance.