Quotes about Reflection
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
— Marty Rubin
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
— Marty Rubin
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
Poetry is not a luxury.
— Audre Lorde
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
— John Lennon
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
— GK Chesterton
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.
— Margaret Atwood