Quotes About Emotion

I saw and loved.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said. Osip Mandelstam suggested that if a poem can be paraphrased, then the sheets haven't been rumpled, poetry hasn't spent the night. The words are an (erotic) visitation, a means to an end, but also an end in and of themselves. The poets is first of all a language worker. A maker. A shaper of language.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech.

Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region—the register—between speech and song.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

Abstract discussions and heavy facts are the groundwork of his involved theory, or analysis, but they cannot be given to the public until they are simplified and dramatized. The refinements of reason and the shadings of emotion cannot reach a considerable public.

For most of human history, problems with learning, emotion, or behavior have been viewed through the lens of morality, often colored by theology.

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

Love is of all other the inmost, and most, visceral affection.

I think you should weep, now. It's time.

When Dodsworth was released, in September 1936, just two months after the trial ended, Mary's performance together with that film's emotional ending would win her forgiveness and new admirers, and mark a turn in her career.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Anger is a wasted emotion.