"When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.”
“Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.”
“Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.18, Macmillan
“Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.”
“It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.”
“And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that ***** was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.”
“Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.”
“It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.”

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