Quotes About Expression

it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world":

that great poem, which all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.

forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Una sola sentencia puede considerarse como un todo, aunque puede hallarse en medio de una serie de partes no asimiladas; una sola palabra puede ser una chispa de inextinguible pensamiento.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down—to nothing but a smile.

Most kids are never told about one of life's most effective weapons: when to get pissed as hell. Show it. And then mean it.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

Schoenhals calls the rigidity of tifa a "form of power." This simple claim has greater profundity than may appear on the surface. In an obvious sense, it means that holders of power can insist that people say certain things in certain ways and expect that, over time, thought and behavior will follow.

he followed the ball down to the other end of the court, stopped, stared at me with contempt, and then did the strangest thing. He winked. Like he was flicking me off with his eyelid.

A proverb is an ornament to language.