Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

You are in every line I have ever read.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.