Cornelius Eady famous quotes

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When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Dance #World #Should
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Thinking #Silence #Enemy
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Crazy #Race #Discussion
Cynicism is a form of obedience.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Cynicism #Obedience #Form
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Running #Writing #Lucky
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Song #Sometimes #Knows
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Song #Writing #Singers
Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.
-- Cornelius Eady

#Writing #Years #Three

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

Cornelius Eady famous quotes

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