Quotes About Expression

Except Marianne, who smiled vaguely.

In love there are two things—bodies and words.

Being lonely was a female sickness for which the cure was the tattoo freak & the tattoo freak was also the sickness.

as men were smudged and stained by crying.

Fucking macramé knots were maybe harder than they looked.

Poetry is what frightens. It is rare, and worth waiting for.

Thank you, Patrick—" but she spoke too softly

En una familia, lo que no se dice es lo que se espera oír. Pero el ruido que hace una familia es para que no se oiga.

and much more interesting.

Es curioso, siempre sabes más de lo que dices. Quiero decir, cualquier persona. Lo que dices siempre es menos de lo que sabes.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster. Adele, Henry's Mother

Our mouth gives expression to what we think, feel, and want. Our mind tells us what we think, not necessarily what God thinks. Our will tells us what we want, not what God wants. And our emotions tell us what we feel, not what God feels. As our soul is purified, it is trained to carry God's thoughts, desires, and feelings; then we become a mouthpiece for the Lord!

Corinthians 14:15

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes that we have.

that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (see Matt. 12:34 KJV).

Good words are worth much, and cost little. —George Herbert

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that's who forms our poetics.

When the poem throttles your innards, that's when you got to hit the paper and arpeggio the keys—it's up to you.-Juan Felipe Herrera @cilantroman

they talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who you are.

Es un chico cabreado, sólo eso. Un chico enfadado con el mundo. Y no es para menos. Mejor que saque su rabia así -escribiendo- y no quemando coches. Esos sí son peligrosos. Esos no respetan nada: ni la ortografía, ni la sintaxis, ni el sentido común.

Déjenme aunque sea el derecho de pataleo que tienen los ahorcados!

Uno platica aquí y las palabras se calientan en la boca con el calor de afuera, y se le resecan a uno en la lengua hasta que acaban con el resuello.

Me di cuenta que su voz estaba hecha de hebras humanas

Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.