Le Corbusier Quotes

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

My moral compass is strong.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

You are in every line I have ever read.

You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.

Don't compromise your principles.

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Sometimes, you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And, other times, you just know what that feeling of hurt, love, anger and depression is, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind, and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.