“I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.” HeartStillsOrderCompassionLaughingAliveCryBirthMy HeartRhythmBirth And Death Book:Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems Source: Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansStillsShowsUnderstandingNumbersLaughingCryPrayingStructurePaintPreservesCurseDetest Author:Janice Tanton
“There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.” StillsFeelingsSongEmotionCryPureCommunicate Author:David Byrne
“There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!” MenStillsCrySonKingsDevilCarpenterKing David Book:The last temptation of Christ Source: The last temptation of Christ