Quotes About Expression

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

There. I'd actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

When he turns his attention once more to Katie, he makes a noise that in part is an expression of distress

At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for the pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano--or to yourself.

AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL

I admit that I don't understand art that isn't in the least representational. But I feel no need to understand it.

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.

She considers them to constitute a work of art.

Doctor, he's going to be all right, isn't he? He won't-he won't die, will he? Apparently, James Keene was aware that his naturally glum face and drooping eyes presented, merely in repose, an expression that did little to inspire confidence. He cultivated a warm smile, a soft yet confident tone of voice, and an almost grandfatherly manner that, although perhaps calculated, seemed genuine and helped balance the perpetual gloom God had seen fit to visit upon his countenance.

Maybe it's just that before anything came the word, and words are the roots of everything that our senses perceive. Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it. Therefore, when I give myself to the free flow of any words that trip off my tongue without predetermination, I am tapping into the primal creative power at the heart of the cosmos.

We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.

Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.

We withhold our communications to others, fearing that we are not worthy of love and happiness.

I'm referring to feelings! Women aren't afraid to face their feelings. Men are so terrified of emotion they hold it inside until they're totally bent out of shape.

Color is a feeling for me. I work by feeling! —Tina, Freia Handpaint Yarns

My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one's point across.