Quotes About Expression

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

In anger, you look ten years older.

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

Just so, an honest poet who is making a poem is doing neither more nor less than making a poem, I distracted by the thought even that it will be read. Poets, or some poets, bear witness as faithfully as possible to what they have experienced or observed, suffered or enjoyed, and this inevitably is instructive to anybody able to be instructed. But the instruction is secondary. It must be embodied in the work.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

I'm so involved in the process that sometimes at the end of a day, I can look at the piece on my desk and really wonder how it got there. At other times, I really have to struggle with a piece to turn it into what I had in mind. Sometimes, I give up and leave it half finished to work on something else. Then in a few days, when I come back to it, I can see what it wants to be... which sometimes is not at all what I had in mind. When I just let that happen, things seem to go more smoothly.

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did have a lot of time to be creative by myself and with my parents.