Michal Lapaj famous quotes

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.
-- Michal Lapaj

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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.