Quotes about Emotion

The protector was her, the greater power was her, the Universe that took an interest was her as well; always her. "I love you," I said.

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?" "No, it isn't," says Charmaine. "Love isn't like that. With love, you can't stop yourself." She wants the helplessness, she wants…

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.

Crying can bring such relief.

Now I live only for Peter