Potency Quotes

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We create through our voice, through the power of our voice. So, when a person frees up their voice energies, from a yogic standpoint, they're increasing their potency as creators, to create in their life whatever it is they choose to create.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species