Quotes About Feeling

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

My heart only knows love.

Feeling is to know. Consciously understand that feeling is living.

How wonderful it would be that your heart preserves the happiest of moments and you can fight all your negativity and challenges throughout your life with such feeling of that moment.

There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Thousands of pulpit orators have swayed their audiences as a wind sways standing corn; but in the result, those who were most affected differed nothing from their former selves. An effect of eloquence is sufficient to account for a vast amount of feeling at the moment; but to trace to this a moral power, by which a man, for his life long, overcomes his besetting sins, and adorns his name with Christian virtues, is to make sport of human nature.

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

I cannot account for this numbness of feeling that weighs me down and makes me helpless," he wrote sadly to Edward. "I think without a relief from all work, without a long and perfect holiday, I will never rise.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling