Quotes About Expression

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

Kirk you son of a dirty, lying, sidewinding—somebody cut me off before I say something I'll have to apologize to him for.

Absolutely," she said. "Artists use them

seen that quick alteration of her features

Sometimes there's so much to say that you don't know where to begin.

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

I couldn't tell a joke if my life depended on it.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I like the feeling of being about to confront an experience and resolve it as art. —Eudora Welty

Why should a poem please even a majority of readers or listeners? Perhaps someone needs the particular poem that you wrote. You probably do, at any rate.

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

Writing is more about discovery than invention.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.