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Quotes About Expression

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
~ Horace
The limbs of a dismembered poet.
~ Horace
O imitators, you slavish herd!
~ Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
~ Horace
As in painting, so in poetry.
~ Horace
A picture is a poem without words.
~ Horace
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
~ Horace
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
~ Horace
I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before.
~ Horace
Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.
~ Horace
Foot-and-a-half-long words.
~ Horace
Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.
~ Horace
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
~ Horace
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)
~ Horace
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
~ Horace
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
~ Horace Walpole
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
~ Horace Walpole
sus ojos, así, llenaban aquel semblante en flor con la luz de su belleza.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Pero sus ojos, así, llenaban aquel semblante en flor con la luz de su belleza.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Wörter meine Fallschirme mit euch springe ich ab
~ Unknown
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
~ Hosea Ballou
Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your Silence. Hovsep kazezian www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
~ Howard Dietz
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
~ Howard Hodgkin