Quotes About Expression

Love is a book without words – Riley HughesRate it:

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher a clocher; des guirlandes de fenetre a fenetre; des chaines d'or d'etoile a etoile, et je danse.

Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.

Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.

How can you write if you can't cry?

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside— she could never invent them.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.?

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

Calculo, como si fuera informe de gobierno, que he publicado unos 60 mil dibujos en 60 años, y si contara todos los que he hecho, dibujo por dibujo, paso de los cien mil fácilmente.

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.