#emo

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#barrier #both #i #i do #instant

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#doing #emotionally #enjoy #i #intellectually

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hesitation #i #poems #saying #sentimental

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#corner #emotions #expressed #happy #how

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#any #armed #assure #before #commitment

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. ↗

— Max Muller

#feeling #grown #memory #nought #older

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

#keep #memory #other #our #ourselves

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ↗

— Alice Munro

#final #get #gets #i #lost