Ecstatic – Quotes

Your body is the

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence… So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves – in our heads, our memories, our … Read more

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the confrontation with meaninglessness. Errol Morris

Poetry is the language

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting ‘Hiawatha’ and they groan. Erica Jong

The great piano virtuoso

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, Ah Maestro, you are a genius! Paderewski tartly replied, Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod! What … Read more

I wouldn’t say that

I wouldn’t say that my emotions are extreme. I’d say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna’s dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I’m going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I’m happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I … Read more

Here’s what I think

Here’s what I think I’m having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I’d just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I … Read more

Your body is the

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the

Poetry is the language

The great piano virtuoso

I wouldn’t say that

Here’s what I think

The Heart is the

For each ecstatic instant

The Soul should always

The soul should always