Eleonora Duse Quotes

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

Memory feeds imagination.

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

We can invent only with memory.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.