Quotes About Expression

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.

Poetry is not about authority. Poetry is one of the few thing we all have access to all the time that transcends and transforms authority into freedom.

All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

Human language is too poor to express the real nature of the Absolute Truth or Ultimate Reality which is Nirvana. Language is created and used by masses of human beings to express things and ideas experienced by their sense organs and their mind. A supramundane experience like that of the Absolute Truth is not of such a category. Therefore there cannot be words to express that experience, just as the fish had no words in his vocabulary to express the nature of the solid land.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,No more modest than immodest.Unscrew the locks from the doors!Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,In you I wrap a thousand onward years.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,Yet utter the word Democratic, the wordEn-Masse.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

Those things most listened for, certainly those are the things least said.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.

Words! book-words! what are you?

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.