A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.