Quotes About Expression

Plain and simply, a love lyric is one's soul set in motion. If it's good, it may do the same to you.

Susan, Susan -- Poetry: aviation! Prose: infantry. [to Susan Sontag]

A rhyme turns an idea into a law; and, in a sense, each poem is a linguistic codex.

Scratch on, my pen: let's mark the white the way it marks us.

Suicide] is the essence of self-portraiture.

No poem is ever written for its story line's sake only, just as no life is lived for the sake of an obituary. - Joseph Brodsky

Il poeta, ripeto, è il mezzo di cui la lingua si serve per esistere. O, come ha detto il mio amato Auden, è colui in cui e per cui la lingua vive.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

What does the soul truly want is a story

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo.

Moyers: Then what does love have to do with morality? Campbell: Violates it....Insofar as love expresses itself, it is not expressing itself in terms of the socially approved manners of life. That's why it is all so secret. Love has nothing to do with social order. It is a higher spiritual experience than that of socially organized marriage....Love was a divine visitation, and that's why it was superior to marriage.

Sentiment is an echo of violence. It's not really a vital expression.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.

CAMPBELL: Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Most

person who has had a mystical experience knows that all the symbolic expressions of it are faulty. The symbols don't render the experience, they suggest it. If you haven't had the experience, how can you know what it is? Try to explain the joy of skiing to somebody living in the tropics who has never even seen snow. There has to be an experience to catch the message, some clue—otherwise you're not hearing what is being said. MOYERS:

a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.

Minha definição de demônio é um anjo que não foi reconhecido. Melhor dizendo, é um poder seu para o qual você negou expressão, e você reprime. Então, como toda energia reprimida, ela começa a crescer e a tornar-se muito perigosa.

The symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche.