Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Happiness
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. – Soren Kierkegaard

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God
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Age
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This music wont do. Theres not enough sarcasm in it. – Samuel Goldwyn

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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. – Martin Scorsese

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius

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Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. – Maynard James Keenan

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