Quotes About Expression

Likewise a poet.

Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

Music without passion or soul is just a collection of notes, right?

it's well known that captivity makes queers of us all—

Sex, for me, is equally capable of expressing positive and negative emotions, often at the same time.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

WHO ARE YOU?" This is the first question your constituents want you to answer for them. Your leadership journey begins when you set out to find the answer and are able to express it.

The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.

Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority.

being present." Once you are present to what you are saying, you express it differently, and as a result it sounds different

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.

What is laughter… but somehow the cabaletta to grief?