The lines of poetry the period of prose and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion pass time and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do as I'm writing a movie is go through all those songs trying to find good songs for fights or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
When I sent those scripts that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son and when I went to collect them from hospital I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers the screen showed I've got $26 left.
Money is our madness our vast collective madness.
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
I have lots of records quite a collection actually that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits ' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.