Gerald H > Gerald's Quotes

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
― Wallace Stevens

“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
― Wallace Stevens

“The imperfect is our paradise.”
― Wallace Stevens

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
― Wallace Stevens

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”
― Wallace Stevens

“The mind can never be satisfied.”
― Wallace Stevens

“The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
― Wallace Stevens

“I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.”
― Wallace Stevens