Quotes About Expression

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Write with love, write with joy, and write with pride.

To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

charmed the words out of

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

can't hold my tongue.

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

Beauty without expression tires.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.