World Quotes - Page 816

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the house but inside the mind and body of writer and reader.

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western history. I go back to the Greeks, I go back to the Romans. You can read Homer. And of course Homer has his great heroes involved in this myth, this wonderful mythic contest with savage tribal peoples, half-human monsters on distant parts of the world.

When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.