Henry Williamson Quotes

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We [Nazis] think with our blood.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

The first instinct is love.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.