If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
