Quotes About Emotion

'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I don't have to prepare any speeches for love. It's something that I engage with on a consistent basis.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

I can't even handle a spider in my bathtub. I'm scared of the dark, and I've got ultimate, epic bug phobia.

'Mercury' being a silent film needed a strong background score that could give you chills down the spine.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.

Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.

Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

Rock n' roll is closest thing I've got to a spiritual power. It's been the higher voice in my life and it's never let me down.

The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.