Quotes About Resonance

The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...

This is true, and defines the lostness of the grief struck. You constantly report things, so that the loved one 'knows'. You may be aware that you are fooling yourself (though, if aware, are at the same time not fooling yourself), yet you continue. And everything you do, or might achieve thereafter, is thinner, weaker, matters less. There is no echo coming back; no texture, no resonance, no depth of field.

there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.

talking to him this morning had been like taking that first bite of an orange. That first sip of black, black coffee. He listened as though she mattered precisely as much as he did. How disorienting this quality was to encounter in a man.

Because he spoke to her the way no one else had ever spoken to her, which meant he saw her in a way no one else saw her.

she echoed with longing, like struck crystal.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.