Quotes About Expression

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

We are creative and imaginative, not mechanical and precise. Machines require precision and accuracy; people don't. And we are particularly bad at providing precise and accurate inputs. So

the first edition of this book, then called POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things, I started with these lines: "This is the book I always wanted to write, except I didn't know it." Today I do know it, so I simply say, "This is the book I always wanted to write.

the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written

you get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures...

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.

The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

In fact, my experiences as I was writing the 3:16 book weren't that different from writing computer books, although I wasn't using integral signs as much.

The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Face-to-face communication is inherently real-time and combines both verbal and nonverbal information.

I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in. ~from an interview in Narrative magazine

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

the truth is that most people buy a home because it uniquely reflects their personality and their values.

Beautiful writing may sparkle like a diamond necklace, but sparkling isn't a feeling.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

I LIKE WHAT THE DANCER MARTHA GRAHAM ONCE said, that each of us is unique and if we didn't exist something in the world would have been lost. I wonder, then, why we are so quick to conform—and what the world has lost because we have.

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.