American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.Quote by Henry B. Adams about water, society, americans
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.Quote by Walter Pater about family, poetry, common sense, sense, things
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.Quote by Roger Penrose about hope, problems, thinking, time