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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." »Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
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"Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed." »Leo C. Rosten
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo
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"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back." »Albert Camus, The Stranger
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"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." »Brenda Ueland
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour." »Victor Hugo
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo
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"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then." »Blaise Pascal
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"You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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"How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time." »C. C. Colton
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"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts
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"The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed." »Plato
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