Quotes About Expression

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman's skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.

Today I have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.

Deafness isn't an illness! It's a sexual position!

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

I photograph anything that light falls on.

No escribo, luego no soy.

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on. A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.

Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Women's imagination – unlike men's, I would argue – does not always need the erotic equivalent of Semtex to ensure detonation.

First, master your instrument. Then forget all that bullshit and play!

People seem to have a hard time responding to a woman's sexuality without having the desire to literally touch it. I guess in some ways, sexuality implies that, but I don't think sexuality necessarily invites someone else to participate. I don't want people to interpret my work as an invitation to fuck me.

Have a nice, cuntlovin' day.

Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied "The revolution is not being televised" in paint pen. It was a "pointless" action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this. It was an act of love for that "hooligan" Arundhati Roy. It was an act of self-love. I don't expect it to change the world, but on the other hand, I know it will.

Ausdruck ist Wahn

No descuido la escritura, sino a mí misma. Los otros saben dios lo sabe qué hacer con las palabras. Yo no soy mi asistente. ¿Debo aprisionar un pensamiento llevarlo a la iluminada celda de una frase?

Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.