Quotes About Expression

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

The spiritual disposition of a poet inclines to catastrophe.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Si pudiera me gustaría escribir con amor; pero si pudiera escribir con amor sería un hombre distinto al que soy.

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.

Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of my nature, and God's call is an expression of His nature. Therefore, when I receive His nature and hear His call, His divine voice resounds throughout His nature and mine and the two become one in service. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.

There must be a mechanical [physical] outlet for spiritual inspiration. You must DO [in the physical] what you see [in the spiritual], or become BLIND in that particular.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.

Un tempo non era permesso a nessuno di pensare liberamente. Ora sarebbe permesso, ma nessuno ne è più capace. Ora la gente vuole pensare ciò che si suppone debba pensare. E questo lo considera libertà.

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