"I don't ask for the sights in..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.
More by Mary Oliver
“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
“Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.”
“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”
More on Perception
“As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.”
“Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.”
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
More on Vision
“The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.”
“My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.”
“The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.”