I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
Interpretation
The quote expresses a longing for transcendence and the desire to connect deeply with beauty.
Alfred De Musset's quote reveals a profound yearning to immerse oneself in the beauty and wonder of the stars, symbolizing a desire for a deep connection with the universe. This longing can be interpreted as a metaphor for seeking inspiration and dreaming beyond the ordinary, suggesting that one wishes to experience the sublime and to find solace in something greater than oneself.
In practice
In a creative writing workshop, when discussing the importance of longing in poetry.
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.
When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
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