Transcendental Poems Quotes & Sayings

Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country. — Christine O'Donnell

There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert

The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world, but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us. — Tim Kreider

I don't know what people think in making record is like. But basically, I got a bunch of spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, and the whole band was staying at my house and we had a ball. — Chris Isaak

Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others. — Albert Schweitzer

Show them a stony heart and sink them with it — Arthur Miller