My World Quotes
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.
You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.
My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!
Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.
There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.