Evocative Power Quotes

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.