Quotes About Expression

Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.

Sewing mends the soul.

I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

Sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "[f*@%]."

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.

Two most important things in a writer's wallet: library card and poetic license.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Nothing is to be called a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art: therefore a man may be an admirable poet, without being an exact chronologer.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

A prose-writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought!... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

When you unprose language, does it become poetry?

Put all your faith in poets. You will find few others to share Beauty with you; and it cannot be borne alone.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Poetry is emotion put into measure.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.