Quotes About Expression

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. "My botherations often won't let me work,"11 he complained. He

I had never realized that so much communication was non-verbal. That language was a kind of refinement of information passed by other means. We discovered that, with the most limited vocabulary, a half dozen words, you could still cover a lot of ground. And eventually, Belle came back.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't--take two!

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I'm really a-howling!

See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.

Her pants were so tight that if you cut her she wouldn't bleed