Quotes About Expression

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?