Quotes About Expression

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

El teatro hoy es más político que nunca solo por el hecho de seguir siendo teatro...

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

tal vez, las cosas que nos mueven a hablar son las únicas cosas sobre las que merece la pena escribir.

If you let it be known that you are a poet, you will be sent to the police station.

Emily Dickinson reminds us what it's like to be alive. And when she does—she takes our breath away.

Karen Dandurand's view that Dickinson did not publish because poetry to her was never finished. She looked upon her verse as constantly in play and the work of a lifetime. Her attitude is reminiscent of Paul Valéry's assessment: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Emily could hardly get up in the morning without metaphors and images flooding her mind. Often her letters to Austin took on the appearance of a composition exercise, as if she were trying to freeze a moment in words and capture not only the look, but also the feel of an instant.

beneath the surface, Emily was trying to understand if writers were responsible for the feelings they prompted in others: if hurling a word had the same effect as throwing a stone. Was imagination—like a loaded gun—the one pulling the trigger?

She wanted her poems to translate all she saw and heard and felt, and not be any earthly thing. What she aimed for was evanescence like the brilliance of lightning, the flash of truth, or a transport so swift it felt like flight.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

Well, I ain't sayin' it only to hear myself talk.

Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

The body never lies.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The body is a sacred garment.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.