Quotes About Expression

His expression looked like it had been permanently locked into place a few seconds after someone had kicked his puppy through a plate-glass window.

Ow," I complained. I keep my complaints succinct

He looks something like a Caucasian." "Impossible," I said. "He has rhythm and he can dance.

Hebbity bedda," I said, by way of attempting a greeting. My mouth had gone rather numb, and my tongue felt like a lead weight. "Jussa hangonna sayke hee." Fix jumped up and down, pointing at me, his voice shrill. "He's casting on us!

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

Nobel prize for pornography.

Does each song, he wondered, have a certain time and place-beyond the subjective aspects of technique and talent-when it is perfectly played by the performer, or perfectly received by the listener? If so, he wondered, what if by some huge cosmic coincidence both occurred simultaneously? He felt he had just witnessed such a phenomenon. Could the same process occur with other art forms?

In every person there lies a book that can be enjoyed by others only by escaping through the lips or finger tips." - Jim Conover - 2000

Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious

Pouting is another nonverbal sign of displeasure. Kids use it to beg their parents to talk to them.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

Birds are poems I haven't caught yet

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.

It's up to poets to revive the gods.

The language I wanted from him did not exist in his world.

Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.

The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man