Quotes About Expression

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

When you are gay and alone and want to be a poet, suicide crosses your mind at twenty-two like an impresario's cape.

I could only dimly articulate it then, but I think I believed that Art would give me entry into a no-man's-land where the laws of straight no longer applied. And that once I touched the soul of another artist, a comrade in arms, the bodies would fall into place like folds of a garment, twining us in a passion of the flesh. Pretty high-falutin', and an awful lot of effort just to get a man to go to bed with you.

A curious paradox here: hand in hand with the political rebellion of the age went a certain omnisexual freedom, but that meant you could sleep with anyone, not that you could be gay.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

skill in dealing with emotions (yours and someone else's) and in communicating effectively on an interpersonal level.

Anger isn't harmful, it's what we do with anger that causes problems.

Concerning feelings, the most important point to remember is that everyone has them, and we should never be ashamed nor apologize for feeling the way we do. Feelings have no moral value.

Feelings are best handled by expressing them, and worst handled by denying them, by pretending they don't exist.

We are often called upon to defend our opinions; we need never defend our feelings

For some people [blues music] is infinitely glamorous, for others it is a symbol of the oppression of a racial minority.

Art is a chimeric and permanent intervention in the mistery of permanent creation.

Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right?

Design is everything. Everything!