Pastoral Resources

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.