Quotes About Expression

1. A framework that details your corporate vision. 2.   A common language with which to express that vision. 3.   A well-developed routine for keeping the vision current.

David Meerman Scott says, "You are what you publish.

Si yo no hiciera al menos una locura por año, me volvería loco

Los verdaderos poemas son incendios.

Y mientras que el ensueño pertenece a todo el mundo, el delirio sólo pertenece a los poetas.

El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.

La poesía soy yo.

Os diré qué entiendo por poema creado. Es un poema en el que cada parte constitutiva, y todo el conjunto, muestran un hecho nuevo, independiente del mundo externo, desligado de cualquiera otra realidad que no sea la propia, pues toma su puesto en el mundo como un fenómeno singular, aparte y distinto de los demás fenómenos.

Un poeta debe decir aquellas cosas que nunca se dirían sin él.

Yo soy el único poeta de este siglo.

It's not visual. He's not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn't it? The sky, moon, stars, and trees, all those exotic colors you're apt to see in birds' feathers. When you look at a painting, you don't try to visualize the artist, do you? But you know somebody painted it or it wouldn't be there.

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.

tragedy, comedy, and the Parthenon were not so much expressions of native genius as reflections of lots of money.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.

The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach and each assumes the quality of the other.

In proportion as architecture degenerated, printing throve and flourished. The capital of forces which human thought had expended in building, it henceforth expended in books.

La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface.