Quotes About Expression

why has it taken so long for you to say it?

No chickens." "Zebras?" Maggie Rose asked. Mom laughed. "Crocodiles? Anteaters? Giraffes?" Bryan guessed. All the humans in the car were laughing, so I wagged. People don't have tails to let others know they're happy, but laughter is the next best thing.

I'll splatter whatever I want, whenever I want,

And why did she even wind up with that impression? He tried to think of what he might have said to imply such a thing. Could his expression really have been so mournful when Kerri had asked him about the blonde in the photograph that Kerri could only conclude Amanda was dead?

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop!

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its saying where executivesWould never want to tamper

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Art is born of humiliation.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.