Quotes About Expression

You knew beforehand that when you opened the magazine you would find the nasty anger of the pure-hearted.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

I write in terror...I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.

I work from a different theory. For everything there's a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you get along better.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

The artist always plays to himself and I believe the audience seeing that one person can be free to express his thoughts, however strange they may seem, inspires the audience to feel that perhaps they too can freely express their innermost thoughts with impunity, joy, and release, and perhaps discover our common bond – unique yet so similar – with each other.

You should have spoken up sooner." her grandmother answered. "No need to bear pain unless you have to.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later...

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Czes?aw Mi?osz

È difficile comprendere da dove provenga quest'orgoglio dei poeti, se sovente si vergognano che appaia la loro debolezza.

What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.

Paradigm He was aware of his task and people were waiting for his words but he was forbidden to speak. Now where he lives he is free to speak but nobody listens and, moreover, he forgot what he had to say.

poetry has always been for me a participation in the humanly modulated time of my contemporaries.

Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

Theology can only be done in cultural form.