Quotes About Expression

we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.

The trouble with free speech is that it insists on living up to its name.

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of Yellow Submarine, which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Writing is like painting; editing is like sculpture.  Same sensibilities, different skill set.

Vestidos de farrapos, sujos, semiesfomeados, agressivos, soltando palavrões e fumando pontas de cigarro, eram, em verdade, os donos da cidade, os que a conheciam totalmente, os que totalmente a amavam, os seus poetas.

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Nu ascunde totul de teama de a obosi sau plictisi. Caut?-le pe acele persoane în faÈ›a c?rora te poÈ›i exprima aÈ™a cum eÈ™ti. Nimic nu este mai nepotrivit È™i mai d?un?tor decât s?-È›i suspenzi emoÈ›ia din cauza condiÈ›ion?rii stupide a presupusei tale atitudini protectoare fa?? de aproape.

Osjedam da energija za pisanje izvire iz moje nutrine, nema boljega primjera. Uvijek sam razmišljala da, iako su slova ista, njihovo je zna?enje druk?ije ako potje?u iz duše.

Los dolores que no pudimos expresar en nuestra infancia los cargamos como una mochila, y se expresan con nuestras reacciones antes de que nos demos cuenta, de modo que nos encontramos instalados allí antes de poder pensar. Estas reacciones son las que nos causan más problemas en las relaciones íntimas.

Esperar con más o menos paciencia a que el otro termine de hablar solo para poder decir lo que ya estábamos pensando, no necesariamente es dialogar, sino muchas veces la mezcla y superposición de dos monólogos...

Hablaba con los ojos, con la boca, con toda mi cara, lo hacía con el alma cuando hablaba con el

Para escrever bem — acredito com firmeza —, é preciso ser discreto.

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man's memory. That is our duty. If we don't fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

La literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....

To speak is to fall into tautology.