Quotes about Perception

Poetry reaches to the realm beyond the world of sight and sound to reveal what our senses long to see and hear. It is the language not so much of the sublime, but of the truly real.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

Even old, your husband is the young man you remember now. Even dead, he is the man you remember, not as he was but as he is, alive still in your love. Death is a sort of lens, though I used to think of it as a wall or a shut door. It changes things and makes them clear. Maybe it is the truest way of knowing this dream, this brief and timeless life.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.