Quotes about Depth

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the "actual world" a "new dimension of depth" (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their "stained glass" associations and make them appear in their "real potency" (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.

You are so much more than what you or others can see or touch. You are so much more than what you've known or done. You are so much more than what others think or even how your perceptions frame your self-image.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

We float in language like icebergs — four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?