Starhawk Quotes

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Nothing dries sooner then a teare.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.