Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

not an experience shared by most potential readers—I realized that, if I did it well, some of those readers could have that same experience of identification that I valued so much. Moments in my life might resonate with moments in theirs. They might even step right outside their familiar histories and share mine for a while.

Leonard (Cohen) never broke my heart, but his songs have, every time I sing or hear one of them. As Leonard says, "There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

Just as my fingers on these keysMake music, so the self-same soundsOn my spirit make a music, too.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Hay cosas que no están hechas para pensar, sino para vibrar con ellas

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

the relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.

By virtue of the literary work over which they meet, the reader and the writer both begin to loosen their hold on selfhood.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over

It's a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway becomes clear.

Words without a heartbeat are just great words

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. from "Araby

In creating a "hold upon nearness" the poetic word creates a place where we can stand for a while, allowing us to bear witness to our own being.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star

Music, the knife without a hilt.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

When I hear Mozart, I understand what it is to be a human being; when I hear Beethoven, I understand what it is to be Beethoven; but when I hear Bach, understand what it is to be the Universe.

The two words expressed volumes.

How can it be that a set of the shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?