Quotes About Expression

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Movement is the song of the body.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Poems help to keep human beings actually responding as human beings to the sufferings of others.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

When I talk to people about what makes us human, some people say it's our tears. Because we are the only ones who weep, only we can feel true sorrow. When I hear this, I remember Isiro's face, her anguished eyes as she cried for Mikeno, how she screamed at the keepers with her teeth bared and pushed at the poles. How she dashed back to his body and dug her fingers into his chest as if the strength of her grip could bring him back. There is sorrow without tears. Of course there is.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.

I wanted you to know me.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Napolje iz moga zazidanog beskraja Iz zvezdanog kola oko moga srca Iz moga zalogaja sunca Napolje iz smešnog mora moje krvi Iz moje plime iz moje oseke Napolje iz mog ?utanja na suvom Napolje rekao sam napolje

I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.