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quotes by topic Emotions

" I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through. "

Fact , Emotions

" The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. "

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Body , Soul , Forget , Play , Emotions

" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "

Sky , Earth , Emotions , Artist

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

Poetry , Business , Emotions , Feelings

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "

Want , Poetry , Expression , Personality , Emotions , Emotion

" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. "

H. P. Lovecraft

Fear , Emotions , Strong

" One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heart , Emotions

" I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying. "

Emotions , crying

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