Quotes About Expression

Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Never miss an opportunity to say I love you...Better still...Create them ?????

Love, understood by all, will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence.

Aunque hable las lenguas de los hombres y de los ángeles, si no tuviera Amor, sería como el bronce que suena, o como el címbalo que tañe.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

The pidgin English exclamation chop chop replicates the Chinese kwai kwai.)