Quotes About Expression

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Passief ondergaand of actief ingrijpend, zwijgen of spreken. Het ene is ziekmakend, het andere helpt ons gezond te blijven.

Het niet bewust kunnen ervaren en uiten van het gevoelsleven kan bijdragen tot ziek worden. Dat emoties te maken hebben met lichamelijke spanningen en dat ontlading deugd doet, van lachen tot huilen, kunnen we allemaal ervaren. Maar het omgekeerde verband, dat tussen ziekte en het niet kunnen uiten en ontladen van emoties, bleef lange tijd een raadsel. Ondertussen hebben we een sleutel gevonden om de deur te openen naar het holistische netwerk. Die sleutel heet "stress".

And all else is literature.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Moi, je ne puis, chétif trouvère de Paris, T'offrir que ce bouquet de strophes enfantines : Sois bénin, et pour prix, sur les lèvres mutines D'Une que je connais, Baiser, descends, et ris.

Ce n'était ni le Diable ni le bon Dieu, c'était Arthur Rimbaud, c'est-à-dire un très grand poète.

Far from being opposed to the truth, fiction is only its by-product.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer, All day, and nothing happens.

I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. You can't discover that in the raw. ~ Leonard Cohen

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before I met Ms. Finney, Barbara, I was afraid to tell anyone. I think it's some kind of miracle that all we have to work with is the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. And they turn into words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books, conversations, plays. It's just incredible to me.

Well, I, Amber Brown, am green with envy. I am not only green….. I am feeling blue….. I am seeing red….. I am purple with anger….. I am not feeling like a rainbow. I am feeling plaid. All of these colors mix together to make a not very pretty pattern. I, Amber Brown, do not like plaid.

Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness

You don't know what you feel, he said sharply. That's what manners are for--to keep things going when one doesn't know.

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?