Emotion

“Pour convaincre par mes chansons, il faut que je sois convaincue.”

“The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.”

“I lay my harp on the curved table. Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings.”

“But you spoilt it all with a smile! My efforts were all useless.”

“I don't like art that is too much intellect. I like it to speak to my heart, my reason.”

“It is a sadistic pleasure. The suffering never stops – that’s the problem.”

“في المعاودة وحدها تاريخُ تكوُّن شخصيتي، فقد كان هناك عاملان يفعلان في نفسي؛ شدة الحساسية ومحاسبة النفس.”

“I had a lot of rage that I look back on with amusement.”

“My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.”

“L’artiste existe en lui-même, et ne prend fond que sur sa sensibilité.”

“We're like a nation's kidney. We help everyone metabolize not just facts but feelings around facts or ideas.”

“The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelings to polarize and destroy.”

“Your body belongs to you, your mind belongs to you, your emotions belong to you, and just always be true to yourself.”

“في المعاودة وحدها تاريخ تكون شخصيتي، فقد كان هناك عاملان يفعلان في نفسي: شدة الحساسية، ومحاسبة النفس.”

“Humor ist der Knopf, der verhindert, daß uns der Kragen platzt.”

“We don’t always know what we’ll be excited by until we see it.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry.”

“The root of poetry is in its emotions, its branches in its wording, its flowers in its rhyme and voice, and lastly its final culmination in the fruits of its meaning.”

“A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.”