Honore de Balzac Quotes
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
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I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.
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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
