Quotes About Expression

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

The fear of poetry is the fear.

And if an essential thing has flown between us, rare intellectual bird of communication, let us seize it quickly : let our preference choose it instead of softer things to screen us each from the other's self : muteness or hesitation, nor petrify live miracle by our indifference.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Traces of him showed around the child's eyes and jaw. There was the same two-stage smile, and the same frown when answering a question. To the town women she was perfectly polite. She was called Ellen.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

Art forms a single, common mentality among all of humanity.

Humor is angry honesty, like an eruption of truth, a volcano on which it is written: Enough.

Poetry is an eloquent painting of emotions, a prosaic sense of reality.

Poetry is very beautiful porn.

Science and art is a toy store. Created in order to occupy a person with something.

Theater and cinema are worn-out moles of acting talent that goes under the skin of time.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!

The gifts of God often come to you from the hands of other human beings, through God's servants. And so, Divine love also expresses itself between human beings. The sheikhs are the pourers of the wine and the dervish is the glass. Love is the wine. By the hand of the wine pourer, the glass—the dervish— is filled.