Quotes About Expression

Some things do not bear telling. I think my father knew this. I think he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

that elsewhere from which all music takes its origins.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Noi siamo la nostra storia, la raccontiamo per rimanere vivi o mantenere in vita quelli che raccontiamo

Forse ogni poeta è condannato all'insoddisfazione. Dev'essere per colpa della luce che li abbaglia

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.

For ninety minutes, I was transported into another life, another reality, another character. Basically, it let me be someone that I wasn't. It allowed me to travel, to be a part of different cultures, different world views, different societies. Plus there are all the elements of movies: music, visuals, writing, and acting. In some ways it is the perfect art form. It is the culmination of all mediums.

Still, for all the therapy I had, none of it ever really fixed that feeling of torn-apartness inside of me. I learned how to express myself, that was all. And, for whatever reason, identifying the root cause of my problem - like fear of abandonment or something - didn't change a goddamn thing. I could see quite clearly why I acted a certain way, but that wouldn't make me any different. I sought out craziness. I was attracted to it. No therapy could take that away.

I wish to make a noise with my feet.I want my soul to find its proper body.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

Aló, ¿con la Casa de la Cultura? - Sí conchetumadre.

Creo que moriré de poesía

Llore si le parece. Yo por mi parte me muero de risa.

llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa

creo más en el verbo que en la acción pero no se me juzgue por lo que digo sino por lo que dejo de decir

Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he's condemned to hell but when haven't poets laughed? at least he declares that he's laughing

In poetry everything is permitted.

If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone if they love you - if you have to ask them, they don't. Or not enough. Not the way you want them to.

Talking hurts the way hurting doesn't.

Le cose, una volta pensate, che bisogno c'è di dirle?