Quotes About Expression

Hello darling, sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known.

So here we are again, words on a page, the voice that wants to be a hand, the bridge with no opposite side.

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.

He was the only man I knew who could roll his eyes over the telephone.

Opera has always been my chief emotional release. Along with sex, of course.

Die menschliche Stimme ist das schönste Instrument, aber es ist am schwierigsten zu spielen.

You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more of that. Please.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

Remember these rules: Don't say all when you mean most. Don't say most when you mean some. Don't say some when you mean a few. And don't say a few when you mean just one.

Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet unable to communicate one's ideas in written form.

She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

The French idea of playing an instrument well is to be able to SING well upon it.

Only the Strong know Love; only Love can fathom Beauty; only Beauty can fashion Art.

Der Gesang ist die in höchster Leidenschaft erregte Rede: die Musik ist die Sprache der Leidenschaft.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.