A Commonplace Book

Category: depth...

  • to be drawn closer and closer to a tiny scene and wonder at its depth and detail
  • a depth of perception
  • the depth of absorption of a writer's mind
  • a classic Cape Cod sky, startling in its clarity and depth
  • depth psychology, study of the unconscious
  • depth and structure, even the time of day, defined by minute differentiations in the tint of paint
  • the ocean's appearing transparent to sunlight near the surface but becoming opaque with depth
  • determining the depth of water by measuring the time it takes a sound (sonic pulse) to return/echo from the bottom
  • It's not the length of life, but depth of life. (RW Emerson)
  • We have deep depth. (Yogi Berra)
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within one lay an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
  • Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession (Isaac Watts)
  • What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. (Ezra Pound)

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