Famous quotes containing the words external world, external and/or world:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“My grief lies all within,
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
There lies the substance.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It was a gift that he possessed alone:
To look the world directly in the face;
The face he did not see to be his own.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)