“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.” KnowsWorldTryingKindPersonsDoeMomentsTogetherFilmFacesSongThreeLinesForgetKnow HowHappenedMinutesKissingPhotographPoetry IsNever ForgetPortraitsChanging Your LifeForget ItSlapBrevity Author:Warsan Shire
“I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.” PeopleMomentsStoriesHappensHappenedOrdinarySurpriseIntimateAggressionScandalOutrageousLots Of Friends Author:Claudia Rankine
“The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.” MomentsHappensTogetherFallPiecesHappenedFitOceanHorribleBack TogetherMost AmazingIceberg Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.” MomentsHappenedTeachingTerribleHistoricalSurvived Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.” IfsLooksHas BeensDoneMomentsLife IsTalkingHappenedBunch Author:Lights
“I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.” PeopleChildrenDoneMomentsUseCan DoHappenedCaughtMy ChildrenGood Moments Author:Richard Masur
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.” KnowsMomentsFeelingsRememberArtistGuyLostProcessHappenedDyingAidsFortunateShockWorking ItHospitalsThreadFamily And FriendsChillDying Alone Author:Aaron Brookner
“I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness.” KnowsWantYearsMindBelieveHumansI CanMomentsFeelingsTogetherWaitingReligiousAnimalConsciousnessHappenedCreationExpressionEvolutionGainsArtisticHuman MindApesBack TogetherHuman ConsciousnessArtistic Expression Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the music so that it's exactly right for you and only you at this particular moment for your particular experience, things that have happened to you over 20 years, to you're particular mental state right now.” PeopleYearsI CanStatesMomentsCommonMillionsPiecesHappenedDesignParticularRight NowAppeals Author:Tod Machover
“Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.” Has BeensMomentsWishGrowsHappenedTasteGratefulI Am GratefulBest Experiences Author:John Assaraf
“One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.” ThinkingHeartMomentsHappensHappenedTomorrowYogaYesterdayOpeningWorriedPresent MomentThings I LoveOpen Your Heart Author:Michael Franti
“There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.” LooksI CanReasonMomentsHappenedUpsetRetrospect Author:Melissa Rauch