Vision

Famous quotes containing the word vision:

    I have always fought for ideas—until I learned that it isn’t ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    You had such a vision of the street
    As the street hardly understands;
    Sitting along the bed’s edge, where
    You curled the papers from your hair,
    Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
    In the palms of both soiled hands.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
    Now there is no question even of that, but only
    Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
    With an occasional dream, a vision ...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)