Quotes About Expression

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Confucius said that "man hideth not." Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

There is no single recipe for making the perfect tea, as there are no rules for producing a Titian or a Sesson. Each preparation of the leaves has its individuality, its special affinity with water and heat, its own method of telling a story. The truly beautiful must always be in it. How much do we not suffer through the constant failure of society to recognise this simple and fundamental law of art and life;

He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away.

a story that must be told never forgives silence

A story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story

Sometimes I get a bit scared—love generally is a scary thing, happy love no less than unhappy, only for some reason no one ever talks about that.

We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.

Briefly, the mentality of the plant-men in every age was an expression of the varying tension between the two sides of their nature, between the active assertive, objectively inquisitive, and morally positive animal nature and the passive subjectively contemplative and devoutly acquiescent vegetable state nature.

He was drunk, but this was something he'd thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.

I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.

S?owa s? jak jaszczurki, potrafi? uciec z ka?dego zamkni?cia.

W jakim? sensie takie osoby jak ona, te, które w?adaj? piórem, bywaj? niebezpieczne. Narzuca si? od razu podejrzenie fa?szu - ?e taka osoba nie jest sob?, tylko okiem, które bezustannie patrzy, a to, co widzi, zamienia w zdania; w ten sposób okrawa rzeczywisto?? ze wszystkiego, co w niej najwa?niejsze, z niewyra?alno?ci.

every single Person has their own expression which he or she overuses. Or uses incorrectly. These words or phrases are the key to their intellect. Mr. "Apparently," Mr. "Generally," Mrs. "Probably," Mr. "Fucking," Mrs. "Don't You Think?," Mr. "As If.

Anger can prompt one to utter various words, but it can also make one fail to remember them afterward.

creating big, bold letters; he draws visible pleasure from the flourishes with which he embellishes especially the letters J and S. They want a big public Disputation,

In a way, people like her, who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind - that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality - its inexpressibility.

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In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.

Words are not nobilities that want their genealogical trees we traced. Words are merchants, swift and useful, now here, now there.