Quotes About Emotion

O my poor words, bear with me. — Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke , ed. David Wagoner (Copper Canyon Press November 1, 2006)

I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.

I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be. — Theodore Roethke, from "She," Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964)

Much of poetry is an anguished waiting." — Theodore Roethke

Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn't he known? Hadn't he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had ever been and done? All he had ever been and done was alone. Why should he have let himself feel any other way?

And let the days go by, and let the time pass, and huddle beneath your impenetrable integument, and wait, and wait, and every once in a long while you will have that moment of lonely consciousness when there is no one around to see; and then it may burst from you and you may dance, or cry, or twist the hair on your head till your eyeballs blaze, or do any of the other things your so unfashionable nature thirstily demands.

What are we to do with Sturgeon's frequently quoted assertion, "All my work is about love"? Well, I take the assertion seriously—but in the manner that I take seriously the innumerable strategies devised over the centuries by innumerable artists to reach into the centers of their own creativity. Such a statement may well represent Sturgeon's own key to working. But there is no necessity for it to be my key into the work.

Acaso hay algún amor en alguna parte sin su propio lenguaje?

For Warmth I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

Compassion is the only energy that can help us connect with another person. The person who has no compassion in him can never be happy.

There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

Everyone has foods that take them on mental journeys.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.