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Quotes About Expression

Kiss Aziza for me," she said. "Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart. Will you do that for me?
~ Khaled Hosseini
Une isha si nje pacient qe nuk i thote dot mjekut se ku i dhemb, por vetem qe ka dhembje.
~ Khaled Hossini
Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad; But the gladness of her gladness, And the sadness of her sadness, Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when she is bad.
~ Khushwant Singh
Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.
~ Kierkegaard
An existing individual is constantly in process of becoming,... and translates all his thinking into terms of process. It is with (him)... as it is with a writer and his style; for he only has a style who never has anything finished, but 'moves the waters of the language' every time he begins, so that the most common expression comes into being for him with the freshness of a new birth.
~ Kierkegaard
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nuestra vida siempre expresa el resultado de nuestros pensamientos dominantes (Søren Kierkegaard)
~ Kierkegaard, Sören
All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.
~ Kim Addonizio
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
~ Kim Addonizio
Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material.
~ Kim Addonizio
Robert Frost said, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
~ Kim Addonizio
I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath.
~ Kim Addonizio
This is your genius: your own profound desire to write. Your love of words and language, your attempt to get to what poet Donald Hall called "the unsayable said." If
~ Kim Addonizio
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you—whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others—not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.
~ Kim Addonizio
There's a great feeling of relief and catharsis when you manage to get something that's been buried or hidden out onto the page. And such a process, whether or not it eventually results in a poem, helps to integrate that part of the self.
~ Kim Addonizio
Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
~ Kim Edwards
I hate that more than anything—being part of a cliché.
~ Kim Edwards
Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)
~ Kim Harrison
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
~ Kim Harrison
What was in the trunk? I asked, and my eyes widened when he opened his coat and let me glimpse a big-ass rifle. I know these people, he said, his expression going hard. We handle their insurance.
~ Kim Harrison
Damn it all to Disneyland! Where's crap for brains?
~ Kim Harrison
And I can't read your mind either, just your face.
~ Kim Harrison
if I'd been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn't want to know where. I truly didn't.
~ Kim Harrison
She's not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.
~ Kim Harrison
Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.
~ Kim Harrison