S.M. Stevens Quotes

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Disillusion is the last illusion.

God and the imagination are one.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

I was the world in which I walked.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

The imperfect is our paradise.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.