Quotes About Expression

yesterday's graffiti on a council wall became today's rant on Facebook.

So remembering is only one more way of being alone when the voice has gone everywhere in the dusk of the porches looking for the last thing to say.

That's what poems are for, unlivable love." epigraph to "In Lilac-Light

If you've lived only by reasonableness, well, you have missed the show, haven't you?

I am frightened, yet I cannot help my mouth from saying these things. It has always been this way with me. My thinking and my mouth have been the matter of many arguments with my mother. He

A beautiful bridge is a poem.

But I didn't want there to be any silences, out of which raw truths might tumble

children could be taught to hear and feel music in their minds rather than just with their ears; how to make them feel music as a thing of movement rather than a dull, lifeless subject; how to awaken a child's sensitivity.

That's splendid. That will do. You got up this morning. You've made everyone understand that. You don't have to be amusing or make people laugh to be a good speaker. The important thing is that you said you hadn't anything to talk about & you did find something to say.

Besides that, he thought it was essential for them to learn how to get up in front of people & express their ideas clearly & freely without being embarrassed, so he decided to put his theory into practice.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.

The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.

Her eyes were a poem; their every glance was a song.

For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Ochii ei erau cu adev?rat poem iar privirile alc?tuiau fiecare un cântec.

La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para expresarla, mientras el vocabulario de los sufrimientos morales y físicos llena innumerables columnas en los diccionarios de todas las lenguas.

Should a warrior feel the need to be comforted, he simply chooses anyone or anything, be it friend, dog, or mountain, to whom he expresses his innermost feelings. It does not matter to the warrior if he is not answered, or if he is not heard, because he is not seeking to be understood or helped - by talking he is merely releasing the pressure of his battle.

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

The piano became a kind of flying carpet by which I could travel to an entirely different place, and I would leave the room with the half-dazed sensibility that children sometimes show when they have discovered a new and agreeable and utterly private world of their own.

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous," Sebök said to one of the students on the last day of the master class. Is there any more fundamental lesson that we must learn as we mature? As my friend had told me, he might have been talking about all of life, not just music.