Quotes About Expression

There is something in death akin to that which exists in love: both spur men to eloquence.

Although the fire is dead, these cinders are its voice

Opens I mouth, for make noise in I's hurt, and say of fire is come through I, and rise, and rise, with grits of bright, in neath of old black sky.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

In our narratives we may signify without constraint.

Je crois que la magie est de l'art, et que l'art est littéralement de la magie. L'art, comme la magie, consiste à manipuler les symboles, les mots ou les images pour produire des changements dans la conscience.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless

Oh my God …" China stared at him. "You are actually thicker than you look.

He came in as soon as we opened, asked for a growling panther on his shoulder blade. He fainted the moment I started." "A growling panther?" "Yep." "Then why are you giving him a tattoo of a kitten?" Finbar shrugged. "I'm just in a kitten kind of mood, y'know?

It hurts," she said.

You could go multicoloured, I suppose. You could show your support for the gay, lesbian and transgender communities. The Rainbow Cleaver, perhaps? No? Too much? That's not your thing? Ah, that's a pity.

The purpose of God for the Christian is the consistent expression of divine love.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

successful creations grow most predictably when they tap into a small network of people who do not see themselves as mainstream, but rather bound by an idea or commonality that they consider special. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott

what I preferred was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair.

because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.

Die größte Freude ist die, aus verschiedenen Sprachen auswählen zu können, was den Inhalt des Geistes am besten ausdrückt.

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.