Quotes About Expression

No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en estas condiciones no se puede encontrar ninguna expresión.

La lengua es el mejor masajista de cejas fruncidas.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

No vale la pena agitar el frasco de las garrapatas. Esto es un juego, como todo lo que vale en la literatura. La palabra es una y la misma; la novela, digan lo que digan, viene de siempre y continúa. Rompiéndola, prevalece. En efecto, si no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, es porque lo viejo vale para la novedad.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart

sometimes all I am is dark emptiness I can't hide in the sleeves of my own robes

Cred c? poetul e într-o perpetu? revela?ie pe care proza n-o aduce, ceva rezervat celor pu?ini.

Singura certitudine: poemul. Singura cuminec?tur?: poemul. Lua?i, mânca?i, acesta este trupul ?i sângele nostru: poemul.

If you dance, you'll feel more joyful. Just thinking isn't going to make you feel better. Think about how joyful you'll feel as you dance. Don't repeat the foolishness of putting off dancing as you debate whether dance will really bring you joy. We feel joy as soon as we dance. Everything is like that.

Those who fully express their soul are peaceful, bold, and confident. They can be peaceful because they know that their essence is eternal, indestructible wholeness, and they are bold and confident because they know their own absolute value.

Helms had probably figured out that the steel guitar was the crucial instrument for Hank; its notes were the wordless cry that completed his vocal lines. The steel guitar sustained the mood and took most of the solos

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.