“In emotional vibrancy experience is recollected not in tranquility… but in excitement.”

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre… 1888–1975

George Musser

Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), Ch. 4 : The Great Debate

“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“In tranquility one recollects them with affection, their instinct is good, crazy family good.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Quoted in New York Post (29 February 1960)
Letters and interviews

“The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.”

John Cage book Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“The scenes were nearly always recollections of my first four months in France; the emotion-recording apparatus seems to have failed after Loos.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 27 On studying at Oxford University in 1919.
Context: In the middle of a lecture I would have a sudden very clear experience of men on the march up the Béthune–La Bassée road; the men would be singing... These daydreams persisted like an alternate life and did not leave me until well in 1928. The scenes were nearly always recollections of my first four months in France; the emotion-recording apparatus seems to have failed after Loos.

“The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality—physical and emotional.”

Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician

"The Reach of Imagination" (1967)

“[T]ime passed and there was really no romance in life anymore, only the tedious tranquility of marriage without excitement or curiosity, the dull routine of making a comfortable living with nothing to nourish the imagination.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity

“If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "The Unstoppable Michael Douglas" in The Christian Science Monitor (15 October 1996) https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1015/101596.feat.film.1.html

““I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.””

Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 561)

“In emotional vibrancy experience is recollected not in tranquility… but in excitement.”

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