Quotes About Expression

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Such a price The Gods exact for song; To become what we sing.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

And long we try in vain to speak and actOur hidden self, and what we say and doIs eloquent, is well—but 'tis not true!

Style… is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.

They always talk who never think.

They talk most who have the least to say.