Quotes About Expression

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Americans see Italian "come una lingua polisensoriale capace di aprire le porte al bello" ("as a multi sensory language able to open the gates to beauty").

As I mulled over the words of its giants, I realized that I was unconsciously moving my hands beneath my cape in the very same ways that I do when I speak Italian. And I was speaking Italian—to myself! My teachers had predicted that someday this milestone of a moment would come, that

Perhaps because of this Babel of dialects, Italians cultivated an alternative language: gestures. In

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Cuvântul potrivit se naÈ™te din t?cere È™i t?cerea potrivit? se naÈ™te din cuvânt.

America, . . . a place of free expression of everything with everyone, which is made possible through the civil courage characteristic of the American and through the lack of all inhibiting officiousness in personal conversation" (Bonhoeffer, cf. report from 1931).

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

My friends and family, especially my mom and dad, are always saying I should smile more.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.