Quotes by Criss Jami

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Angers like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

Oh I know its cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the riskve ever been

There have been times Ive felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream its a written piece and nowThe symphonys soundingShouting out to these feet whose leaps feel foul but quite loudBut howIm allowed to live my dreamsMy Chimeran team brings the Siberian breedRiding reality free til these tires they freezeIn mires in dire need of wires, fire and heat butI love a dark, hard cold heart in the wintery breeze

You ask me why I dont speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a millWell I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling its how it mends it

If I knew what to doId do more than write a song for you

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelos vision, I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

In order to share ones true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

If youre waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, youll never make it.

Its a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.

I often ask myself, Who would Jesus vote for? Then I start to think that he wouldnt vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of Gods teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real scholars and theologians its difficult questions. There is little doubt that the atheist has the bigger imagination: the first reason is due to his persistent caricatures of what constitutes a Christian; the second because of his belief that most of his questions are actually rhetorical. From this I can infer that, instead of laughing at one another (the Christian at modern atheist immaturity and the modern atheist at Christian stupidity), we would have a better chance at productivity laughing with one another as we all dumb down what we dont understand.