Emotion Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Heads are regarded as explosive materials, only to be safely kept in damp places, as far as possible from the peculiar sort of fire which ignites them.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry, it never laughs.