But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

Shine brightly thy inner light.

Adversity is awakening of spirit.

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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.