Steven Wright Quotes

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

I'm such a kid at heart.

McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Childhood lasts all through life.