#nearer

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. ↗

— Gwen John

#god #nearer #reality

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #become #being #bring #condition

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. ↗

— Han Suyin

#being #come #comfort #each #love

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

#adventure #approach #certain #certainty #greater

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #brethren #correct #earth #get

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#down #ground #hill #looking #nearer

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. ↗

— Phoebe Cary

#been #before #comes #ever #home

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#becoming #cannot #come #efforts #give

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#farther #heaven #nearer #nothing #than