Laura Marling Quotes

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

Love is our response to our highest values.

Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The first instinct is love.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.