Quotes About Expression

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

I think men who can cry are strong men

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.