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Quotes About Expression

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
~ Leland Ryken
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
~ Alexander Pope
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
~ Cullen Hightower
I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.
~ Jack Tatum
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
~ Plato
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
~ John Keats
The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.
~ Ramesh Srinivasan
I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.
~ Malcolm Goodwin
There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.
~ John Legend
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.
~ Joan Didion
The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.
~ Jostein Gaarder
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
~ Frida Kahlo
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Music gives strength to the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
~ Dean Koontz
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.
~ Alamvusha
No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.
~ Alamvusha
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
~ Albert Camus
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
~ James Humes
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson