Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
- Joan ChenI think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn`t play, it has a poignancy to it.
- Jim JarmuschIt`s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
- Tracey UllmanDon`t fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
- Paul Tsongas