Charles Williams Quotes

Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Love means being happy, and it is that magical feeling which you get around people you love. Be it friends, family. It could mean different to different people, but to me, it is just being kind and happy with each other.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable.

When you learn how to be really attentive, you learn the importance of patience and appreciating a woman. You're able to appreciate the softness of her skin and the look in her eyes. It's a connection.

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.