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“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.”

May Seems Solitude Judgment Critical Statements Passing Passings Colleagues Loner

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.”

People May Difficult Confidence Solitude Gains

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.”

Ifs May Seems Building Solitude Rivers Let Me Thee Climbs Leap Bells Bees Crystals Deer Slopes Steep Dell Foxgloves

Book:Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems

Source: Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems

“One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.”

Mind May Strong Solitude Impression Fixed Penetrate

Book:Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

“Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.”

May Together Solitude Solitary Flocks

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”

Looks May Doe Real Care Artist Company Solitude Lonely Shoulders Admire Desert Real Artists Does He Care

Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.”

Men May Company Solitude Architecture Intimate Communion Good Company

Author:Luis Barragan

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Solitude may rust your words.”

May Solitude Rust

Author:Anais Nin