Quotes About Expression

I can but repeat that art is not a branch of pedagogy!

Yes, I repeat, there is always something to be done with words, and here are thirty-two authentic words from the Master Philologist himself, not to speak of three commas and a full-stop. Oh, I shall certainly go far with this.

Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be.

Hello? Testing? My name is Jonathan Collins. I am seventeen years old. Today is... some day in July 1993. And I am okay. Scratch that, I am more than okay. I am... I am... I AM.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Why am I really here? To hide myself away or to burst open?

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.

If you would have a right to account of things from illiterate people, let them tell their story in their own way; if you put them upon talking according to logical rules, you will confound them.

The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.

Any music comes from the inner mind and soul, reaching out to the unknown.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.

Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate fuckheads.

I've got enormous breasts.

Francis Galton , whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.