Quotes About Expression

Good writing is not shaped solely by words, but by the contexts, feelings, and hardships from which such words originate.

Merely a vehicle am I for the creator's creations in this world.

Music is the passport to my world of imagination.

My endless works.

The best artists are the greatest of criers.

The cultures and arts of times are reflections of the people whom lived during those times.

The most skilled of writing always stems from that which is not so.

There are times when I just need to cry.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

To write well you must both know of the world and the greater message you wish to share with the world beyond that which you write.

Maybe I write because I've learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

[W]riting is a product of silence and solitude.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Les cygnes chantent avant de mourir. Certaines personnes feraient bien de mourir avant de chanter.

Laugh, but weep at the same time. If you cannot weep with your eyes, weep with your mouth. If this is still impossible, urinate.

My poetry will consist only in the attack by all means in my power upon Man, that wild beast, and the Creator, who should never have created such vermin. Volumes shall pile upon volumes until the end of my life, but only that one idea will be found therein . . . that one thought ever present in my consciousness!

Poetry should be made by all and not by one.

No hablábamos. ¿Qué pueden decirse dos corazones que se aman? Nada. Pero nuestros ojos lo expresaban todo.

I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

So much for the First Amendment! The chief and primary expression of our constitutional rights is being trampled by a "right" that the framers of the Constitution failed even to enumerate, the right to untrammeled sexual practice.

The funniest people are the saddest once

Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.