Quotes About Expression

those nights out in the concert halls were nothing less than a revelation about the workings of his own heart, for music was the heart, he realized, the fullest expression of the human heart, and now that he had heard what he had heard, he was beginning to hear better, and the better he heard, the more deeply he felt—sometimes so deeply that his body shook.

When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.

Si hubiera sido capaz de sonreír, habría sonreído en aquel momento

Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Literature is essentially loneliness. It is written in solitude, it is read in solitude and, in spite of everything, the act of reading allows a communication between two human beings.

My mind was a blithering gush, a pandemonium of rhapsodic thoughts.

No one can say where a book comes from, least of all the person who writes it. Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on living after they are written, it's only to the degree that they cannot be understood.

Silence is not a rewarding response, no matter what it means.

Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.

Ma in una cosa è identica a sua madre: che salvo rare eccezioni, quando parla dice solo ovvietà - tutto quel repertorio di frasi fatte e idee usate che riempie le pattumiere della saggezza contemporanea. [...] Ahi, ahi, povera Rachel…proprio non ne poteva fare a meno. La mia unica figlia stava al mondo da ventinove anni e non era mai riuscita a produrre una frase originale, con un qualcosa di totalmente e irriducibilmente suo.

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

te encontraste cayendo por la fisura entre el mundo y la palabra, el abismo que separa la existencia humana de nuestra capacidad de entender o expresar la verdad de la vida, y por motivos que te siguen desconcertando, aquella súbita caída por el aire vacío y sin límites te inundó de una sensación de libertad y felicidad.

No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.

Pero de repente, después de todo este tiempo, siento que tengo algo que decir y que si no lo escribo rápidamente, mi cabeza estallará.

Me gustó esta y quisiera compartirla. "la literatura es esencialmente soledad. Se escribe en soledad, se lee en soledad y, pese a todo, el acto de la lectura permite una comunicación entre dos seres humanos

When words fail you, you dissolve into an image of nothingness. You disappear.

Cuanto más cerca estás del final, más tienes que decir. El final es sólo imaginario, un destino que te inventas para seguir andando, pero llega un momento en que adviertes que nunca llegarás allí. Es probable que tengas que detenerte, pero será sólo porque te ha faltado tiempo. Te detienes, pero eso no quiere decir que hayas llegado al fin.

For it is his belief that if there is a voice of truth - assuming there is such a thing as truth, and assuming this truth can speak - it comes from the mouth of a woman.

Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other

el arte era una actividad humana que se apoyaba en los sentidos para llegar al alma,

Hikayeler ancak onlar? anlatmas?n? bilenlerin ba??na gelirler.

Iedere schrijver beoordeelt zichzelf - meestal hardvochtig - en dat is waarschijnlijk de reden dat schrijvers blijven schrijven: in de ijdele hoop dat ze het er de volgende keer beter van afbrengen.

No hay nada que disimular. Tiene usted derecho a sus propios sentimientos.