wonder Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.