Quotes About Expression

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.

It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

Creativity is on the side of health – it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. The

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

What you fuck is much more important than how you write.

Perhaps art is an eye problem…

I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.

It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

I had better come clean now and say that I do not believe that art (all art) and beauty are ever separate, nor do I believe that either art or beauty are optional in a sane society.

Por qué lo menos original que podemos decirnos uno a otro sigue siendo lo que más anhelamos oír?

I know how it is. Saying too much. Saying too little. Who says enough? Just enough? My closest conversations are bad translations. That's not what I meant--not what I meant at all.

I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.

All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

Las palabras son la parte del silencio que puede ser hablada

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is.

If I am a wound would love be my salve? If I am speechless would love be a mouth?

Sanat s?rad???d?r; al???lagelmiÅŸ yöntemle onu ehlileÅŸtirerek ya da yemleyerek kal?plara sokmaya çal??mak nafiledir. Kim hayvanat bahçesine gidip de aslan? biraz olsun anlam?? ki?

Being a great poet doesn't always mean that you write great poetry.

It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong.