Clarity Quotes

It was Sophie who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way.

artists

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

uncertainty intellect certainty

Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

children

Poetry...shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

poetry

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

loss

Dazzle me with clarity.

This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

The greatest clarity has always been for me the greatest beauty.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Those who know they are deep strive for clarity.  Those who would like to seem deep strive for obscurity.

Today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

disappointment

I have not and never did have any motive of poetry
But to achieve clarity.

It took me forty years on earth
To reach this sure conclusion:
There is no Heaven but clarity,
No Hell except confusion.

Since writing is communication, clarity can only be a virtue.  And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.