Quotes About Expression

When you write vaguely, you are always vulnerable.

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

The destruction of art by sociology and psychoanalysis," he called it.

You can think of the Carrion Spike as just a ship, but she's more than that. She's an expression of who Tarkin is; a small-scale example of the lengths he's willing to go. Stealth, speed, power…That's Tarkin, the omniscient, ubiquitous Imperial enforcer. And that's why we're turning her into a symbol of something else: of resistance.

I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today." Cooper

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad…

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.

Let me write not for fame and laurel, but from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if my night's labors be burnt each morning and no eye ever shine upon them.

Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.

I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it—let it have its course bad or good ...

Shakespeare permeated his whole being, and his influence is to be detected not in a resemblance of style, for Shakespeare can have no imitators, but in a broadening view of life, and increased humanity.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

But even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself, but from some Character in whose soul I now live. I am sure however that this next sentence is from myself—I feel your anxiety, good opinion, and friendship, in the highest degree, and am Yours most sincerely John Keats.

Please, go away! Ignatius screamed. You're shattering my religious ecstasy.

Had you 'artists' had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal," Ignatius snorted.

the tight trousers that bulged offensively in the crotch in violation of all rules of theology and geometry.