Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

I like to make music from a personal standpoint, and the music that feels good to me, and when the music becomes big, it's even better because it's an even more organic feeling than when you, like, tried to make the hit record.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

Poetry is not always words.

Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?

A sold poem loses half its meaning.

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt—I could almost say watched—the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

You don't know how long your time is here, but people never forget the way you feel.