“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.” MayStatesFeelingsTogetherPoetryWrittenProduceEmotionalPoetTheorySpringConsciousForgottenCurrentsBurdenStormCombinationSubconsciousThunderElectricalThoughts And FeelingsIrritationComing Together Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.” IfsEnergyAttitudeEmotionalHealthDiseaseLowsDrawsCurrentsFrequencyEmotional Health Author:Gary Zukav
“No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.” MenMeanSaidQualityImagineEmotionalEndureBlowCurrentsProductionsTraditionalClassicUnexpectedLinksFewerGravityPatriarchyFamily LifeReproductionConsternation Author:Lionel Tiger
“In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsBelievePersonsLongStillsHardLastsCultureVoicePowerfulEmotionalBabyDeserveCommitmentMeetingsCurrentsCommittedConsumersSettlingOffspringSuckerBoomersBaby BoomerConsumer CultureInside And OutsideEmotional NeedsWorking So HardCommitted Relationship Author:William J Doherty
“In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.” SaidRealMomentsPastEmotionalTheorySevenCurrentsReal LifeUnderwaterIcebergTip Of The Iceberg Author:George Saunders