Quotes About Expression

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.

In the afternoon I drank Coke and wrote poetry.

What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.

This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

This is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence.

Once you start a file, Delphine, it's just a matter of time before the material comes pouring in. Notes, lists, photos, rumors. Every bit and piece and whisper in the world that doesn't have a life until someone comes along to collect it. It's all been waiting just for you.

She used to say to him, If people knew what I was thinking they would put me away forever. But they would put us all away, he said. They have put us away. we are put away for our thoughts, one way or another. We have put ourselves away, he said.

I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered.

Numbers behave, words do not.

Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.

Every lost moment is the life. It's unknowable, except to us, each of us inexpressibly...

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear.

Ses textes étaient des poèmes en prose, le genre de choses qu'écrivent les infirmières avant d'assister à leur première amputation.

One eventually had to confront it. Wasn't Hitler's own struggle to express himself in German the crucial subtext of his massive ranting autobiography, dictated in a fortress prison in the Bavarian hills? Grammar and syntax. The man may have felt himself imprisoned in more ways than one.

He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence. He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides bring him into eloquence.

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

Sva su ljudska bi?a pripovjeda?i koji pri?aju sa svojega vlastitog, jedinstvenog stajališta. Kad to shvatimo, više ne?emo osje?ati potrebu da svoju pri?u name?emo drugima ili branimo ono u što vjerujemo. Umjesto toga, sve ?emo ljude promatrati kao umjetnike koji imaju pravo stvarati vlastitu umjetnost.

be impeccable with your word. Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John in the Bible, speaking of the creation of the universe says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God." Through the word you express your creative power. It is through the world that you manifest everything. The world is a force... Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive-- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.