Edith Wharton Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, Originality

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

• She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Soul, Vision, Trying

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

• And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

  Edith Wharton

  Reality, Vision, Looks

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2147, Delphi Classics

• I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

  Edith Wharton

  Flames, Two, Yesterday

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2147, Delphi Classics

• He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

  Edith Wharton

  Sea, Sky, Vision

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

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