Quotes About Expression

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

My language is the sum total of myself.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

To dance is to live!

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can't get it right.

The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Love is paradigmatic of the truly human relationship, in that it is based entirely on the expression of what the individual is as a human being and the calling forth reciprocally of love in the other individual as a manifestation of their being. If economic life was truly human, then love would be an aspect of production and exchange.

I invented a new word today: plagiarism.

Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, "The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism."35