“You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.” FeelsFeelingsSchoolCurrentsIrreverent Author:Benjamin Walker
“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.” ThinkingFeelsYearsFeelingsProcessBrainMillionsMagicEvolutionFlowResponseSpeciesCurrentsAidsPsychologicalChemicalsElectricalProcreation Author:Alan Lightman
“I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.” ThinkingFeelsWritingFeelingsCoursesDifficultWallCurrentsOddOutsidersBest WorkDisregard Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“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
“Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.” PeopleKindCountryHelpingShowsFeelingsYoungRocksListeningDrugMessagesMethodConstantWesternCurrentsCarefulHearingFeel GoodAll KindsPhrasesStreamsRock MusicGetting HighInterpreter Author:Virgil Miller Newton