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Amazement Quotes

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Jane Hirshfield
Existence, Amazement, Ifs
"Poet Jane Hirshfield On How To Read Poetry And Restore ‘Amazement’". Interview with Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton
Amazement, Corners

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

Roger Ebert
Snow, Facts, Amazement
Twitter post from Dec 4, 2010

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Arthur Rimbaud
Chaos, Amazement, Nothingness

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac
Writing, Recollection, Amazement
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Hanna Rosin
Space, Wonder, Amazement

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

Vin Diesel
Saving Private Ryan, Gamer, Amazement

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Walt Whitman
Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement
Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.

Richelle Mead
Fighting, Back And Forth, Amazement
Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.311, Penguin

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Patrick O'Brian
People, Source, Amazement
Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Alice Fulton
Alive, Amazement, Minors
Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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