Quotes About Freshness

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as grateful as anyone for real progress as any modernist. More so, perhaps. Anything that preserves freshness for the pot is on the side of the angels.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

nothing looks very bad in the morning, when you're a boy.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

your past is a servant that has made you all you now are—not a companion to spend much time with in your present or a friend to carry into your spotless future. It's impossible to enter the magic that each fresh morning brings if parts of you are holding on to old disappointments, resentments and hurts.

They think know-nothings are good because they're not invested in the status quo. They think they bring fresh perspectives

So do whatever it takes to keep the wonder of God's grace fresh in your heart.

The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel "burnt out." That's good to know when scheduling your tasks—you could be better at generating imaginative ideas if you do that kind of thinking after working on a chore that involves a period of tedious, focused effort that strains your powers of concentration.

Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Angus turned to Domenica. This view always makes me feel sad. I don't know why, but it does. He drew in his breath, savouring the freshness of the air. Freshly mown grass was upon it, and the smell of lavender, too, from Elspeth's kitchen garden. Well, perhaps not sad--more wistful, perhaps, which is one notch below actual sadness.

The color is youth.

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

...The thick froth... Lustrous like freshly fallen snow, And resplendent like the spring's blossom.

Each day the first day: Each day a life.

Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

Lemony fresh victory shall be mine!

Chances are everything's already been said, but since no one is paying attention you have to start all over again.

I marvel at everything as if it were new.

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything." Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)

case any dirt had accumulated overnight.