Quotes About Expression

Words are the indices of the mind.

Slang is the illegitimate sister of Poetry.

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

I thank you for such a long letter, and yet if I might choose, the next should be a longer. I think a letter just about three days long would make me happier than any other kind of one, if you please...

...a letter is a joy of earth — it is denied the gods.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

Literature lights the ages.

But in things that respect the feelings, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions!

Why, no one is sane, straight along, year in & year out, & we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, & express themselves in various forms — fortunately harmless forms as a rule — but in whatever form they occur an immense upheaval of feeling can at any time topple us distinctly over the sanity-line for a little while...

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

Now that is the way to write — peppery and to the point. Mush-and-milk journalism gives me the fan-tods.

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848

Music is what feelings sound like.

He was one Who could not help it, for it was his nature To blossom into song, as 't is a tree's To leaf itself in April.

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

Music is what life sounds like.

Music is the color of sound.

Black care shall be lessened by sweet song.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

I'm one of those people, who when I draw birds I just draw flying mustaches.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.