David Duchovny Quotes

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

So the lover must struggle for words.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

A picture is a poem without words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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

Words are music, really.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Music is the soul of language.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Words make love with one another.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.