Peter Porter Quotes

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been so in my moment about my life.

The characters I write about are very internal.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I think about my journey sometimes.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.