The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. . . obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".
Obscurity brings safety.
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.